Ray Tracing Alan Wake 2
Alan Wake II pushes the boundaries of visual fidelity with its ambitious implementation of “full ray tracing,” also known as path tracing. This means ray tracing handles all lighting, reflections, and shadows, creating a more realistic and immersive environment. The game features ray-traced direct lighting for accurate and dynamic shadows, ray-traced indirect lighting for realistic bounced light, ray-traced reflections on surfaces like water and glass, and ray-traced transparency for convincing interaction with transparent objects.
In Alan Wake II at 1440p with raytracing enabled and upscaling set to balanced and again we find the 4070 SUPER doing a much superior job as the 5070 comes in with 10% less performance, though that is enough for a 16% uplift over the 4070 non-SUPER and a strong 105% improvement over the RTX 3070, which is much more realistic in terms of the expectations that gamers will have.
At 4K, it’s pretty much a repeat, with the 5070 coming in with 15% less performance, when compared to the 4070 SUPER, 14% more performance than the 4070 non-SUPER, and 100% more than the RTX 3070, though again, that’s more about how far behind the 3070 is, and not how much ahead the 5070 is.
