And what, 85%+ of the market isn't you. Hell it's likely more like 99%+ of the market isn't you if you're talking 4k. And until ray tracing can be used on the vast majority of cards games aren't going to require it because the companies making the games could never recoup the development costs much less have a chance of making a profit. That's a fact and it's a fact which will hold back ray tracing for generations yet. That's why myself and many others find ray tracing to be moot at this time and for the foreseeable future. It's little more than a gimmick at this point. It should be something great down the line but the hardware to do it isn't here. Ray tracing is not "here" yet and that's a fact.Agree to disagree. The fact remains that RT is here. AMD isn't. I would not buy a card that couldnt do RT as it should be. I am an early adopter, but its just writing on the wall at this point. It is a big issue for enthusiasts.
If you are happy buying a brand new card that is handicapped, that's fine. But i don't buy "top of line cards" to not have top of line features. You forgot quite a lot of AAA titles on that list as well just FYI.
This is why I find it hilarious there are so many people out there who claim they won't touch AMD because of ray tracing performance. I'd be surprised if most of the people saying that even have a current card capable of turning on ray tracing and leaving it on. The irony is also great because by the time ray tracing becomes mainstream, both AMD and nVidia current cards will be considered sub-par.
But that assumes AMD and nVidia don't price themselves out of the market. The cost to make the cards keeps increasing and both companies seem to be doing their best to continually raise prices across product lines. Not only does that mean fewer cards sold in the long run, it also means adoption of newer features such as ray tracing will lag behind. We're already looking at waiting at least two or three generations before ray tracing might be properly useful on mainstream cards but if the adoption of those cards is retarded by continually increased prices it will be even longer before the software side catches up to use it. At least in this case AMD likely has a considerable advantage over nVidia with the use of chiplets on GPUs. The chiplet route is likely a hell of a lot cheaper which means AMD can afford to cut prices or at least stall price increases over time.