If you've played CoD Cold War, which I did a LOT last night on my 3080, I think that's a very strong case for when you implement next gen effects, Nvidia are a clear winner. That game maxed out in 4k using max ray tracing effects and DLSS looks incredible. I don't normally say this about the CoD games since they're often extremely underwhelming visually, but they've done an amazing job this time around and it sets a new bar for FPS quality for next gen that hopefully CyberPunk and many others will quickly follow up on.
I've not had first hand 6800XT experience in the game, but 4k Ultra settings with RT is about 20 fps going by this video
so completely unplayable. Dropping to 1440p with RT on to reclaim some frame rate leaves you with about 60fps average with some bad lows, fine in singleplayer but not ideal in Multiplayer.
If you're an IQ purist and you spit at DLSS, and you just want raw 1440p side by side comparisons with ray tracing you're still going to get way faster performance with Nvidia, there's just more grunt to their RT cores. But DLSS gives you the flexibility to either push higher resolutions or faster frame rates, whatever your preference is. If like me you have a 4k monitor and your focus is high resolution and high quality you'd normally have a dilemma with RT, because 4k native with RT isn't quite playable (about 45fps for me). Regular up-scaling of 1440p to 4k is typically brutal on image quality. However with DLSS "Quality" mode at 4k, the internal resolution is 1440p and the output quality is so damn near 4k native that it's impossible to tell, all with easily playable frame rates in the 80's. If instead you're a performance fanatic then you can switch down to DLSS "Balanced" or "Performance" modes to get your FPS to like 120 with a 4k output, although quality suffers slightly because DLSS is working smaller internal resolutions, only 1080p in "performance" mode.
This is why I don't think raw benchmark numbers of rasterization games tells enough of the story in reviews. At the end of the day I pay money for my video card to get a better gaming experience, the leap in quality with RT effects along with the general fidelity increase gives an amazing new experience. And I don't have to sacrifice either 4k or high frame rates, you can literally have it all. With AMD in the same generation you're going to have to sacrifice something, you can pick and choose whatever that is (res, performance, RT or other settings) but something has to give.
