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MR: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/24587

tl;dr big performance improvement in ray tracing on AMD cards coming, with the dev claiming a 3x performance boost in Hitman 3.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

6xxx does support it, it's just slower than 7xxx. I don't bother because I don't want the perf hit (even with these improvements) as I care more about high refresh rate/resolution support but good to see nevertheless, particularly for future cards where performance will improve further.

You might want to upgrade Mesa too as I believe at least some of the RT options should now be enabled by default, but I haven't tested myself. And you can force it with env variables, as the other commenter suggested.