Nvidia says 83% of RTX 40-series gamers enable ray tracing
No fewer than 83% of GeForce RTX 40 GPU owners enable ray tracing and 79% of them crank up DLSS. So says Nvidia itself courtesy of data collected through GeForce Experience.
If you're wondering how that compares with older RTX 30 and 20-series cards, well, Nvidia has numbers for those(opens in new tab), too.
«79% of 40-series gamers, 71% of 30-series gamers and 68% of 20-series gamers turn DLSS on. 83% of 40 Series gamers, 56% of 30-series gamers and 43% of 20-series gamers turn ray tracing on,» says Nvidia.
Nvidia's conclusion from all this? «That’s why it’s essential to consider both ray tracing and DLSS when evaluating an RTX 40 Series upgrade — which is how today's gamers achieve the best graphics and performance.»
Among other interesting data points are some screen tech insights. 62% of RTX 40 owners have a 144Hz-plus capable monitor, while just 28% game at 4K.
Of course, some typically cynical wags on Reddit have commented(opens in new tab) that these figures may not be quite what they seem. The gist goes something like this. User turned on ray tracing. User turned off ray tracing. Boom! Chalk one up for the ray-tracing column, because look, they turned it on!
Nvidia doesn't provide any details as to what it takes to qualify as an RTX gamer who enables either DLSS or ray tracing. Could a brief experimentation as implied above qualify? We simply do not know.
It's certainly fair to say that without disclosing what games these numbers apply to and how long gamers used RT settings and so whether they stuck with ray tracing for the long haul, the simple fact that 83% of gamers with RTX 40 GPUs turned ray tracing on at some point, which is all we know for sure from the data, doesn't mean a whole lot.
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