HITMAN 3 Ray Tracing Comparison (featuring Ray-Traced Reflections and Sun Shadows)
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Maxed out Settings, DLSS Quality setting.
Recorced and uploaded in 1440p.
This is a native ray tracing implementation and not a reshade mod.
Even with real-time ray tracing still being in its infancy, I believe RT will become more important with current and coming generation hardware, so I created this channel with the intention of covering ray-traced games. There are plenty of channels doing mainly performance comparisons, my intention is to focus on the visual aspect and make the differences more obvious through my videos.
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RT shadows is a big improvement in some areas. Like the beginning of Miami, the security station's overhanging roof section doesn't cast any shadow with RT off, but it does with RT on.
Yeah the shadows in hitman by base are terrible
@@diamondrel5190 They are not terrible. But with RT it is all so much nicer now.
@@Safetytrousers but the the range of shadows is terrible, sometimes big structures don't even cast shadows..
@@niks660097 It's only terrible if you are nitpicking looking for it. I have never noticed anything wrong with the shadows in the 15 hours of RTX play I have played. Wrong things I have noticed are distinct DLSS trails of leaves and one of the hand movements and sometimes flashing off and on of general lighting.
Even without raytracing it nailed the good usage of planar reflection. Making the graphics more believeable even without expensive feature
The first time I saw hitman 3 I genuinely thought it was running ray tracing until the guy in the video commented on how good it looks even without ray tracing
amazing comparison. i like that fast switch between rtx on and off and the carefull selection of most impactfull scenes
This game hits it very hard with the Ray Tracing on High End Systems with no DLSS it's taking 100 FPS away. That's pretty significant.
It is pretty rough. Particularly hard to justify the effect when IOI did such a good job implementing nice looking planar reflections wherever they could. Seems like a lost art.
@@RayTracingRevolution yep. Indeed. I was watching a side by side and the base game effects actually looks very, very good. Im amazed at what they were about to pull off. Maybe mixing in a few RT effects here and there won't kill preformance that much.
Yes, because it was not built as a ray traced game. Whenever they add it later it's like some kind of "brute force" always taking a huge performance hit. Games like Metro Exodus or Control are a good example.
You don't need to run RT at max. You can lower it.
@@killermoon635 That's True. Im like as long as I can see the Reflections I'm not too worried all the other stuff honestly.
his shiny head should reflect stuff too
awesome comparison video, thanks for doing this!
Thanks for your channel. Exactly what I was looking for! I have subscribed 👍👍
really appreciate your work in such a short time, thank you kindly for your efforts :D also i really like the music you choose lately
Thanks a lot :) Took a couple month break but back to the channel now
Hes back!!! Good to see you back.
wish more new games releasing had even close to the level of metro exodus enhanced edition's ray tracing capabilities, the unlimited bounce GI was so immersive, dying light 2 came close though
That's the difference when a game is made with ray tracing in mind versus of being added later. Control is another good example.
The other cool thing about MEEE is how well it ran too. Find me another ray traced game that uses all the stuff that does in an open world environment to boot and run that well.
Metro exodus required artists to go in and redo all the lighting in every scene. Something of that quality will only be common when raytracing is the default in the first place and not something you have to be able to turn off for consoles and low end hardware. The closest we'll get for some time will likely be unreal engine 5 games, but even that won't quite be the same
@@existentialselkath1264 Lumen uses hardware accelerated ray tracing for global illumination, reflections, shadows, ambient occlusion, the works, so I'd say the vast majority of UE5 games will be built with ray tracing in mind.
@@Gabriel-of-KZhead wouldn't compare control with metro as it's a game with no day night cycle. Metro is more complex with its constant weather changes and the rt has to adapt in real time considering the tech they used. But yeah control is really good compared to other rt games NGL.
I've never been a fan of how hitman handled reflections, especially their cubemap implementation. It would often result in random 'phantom' reflections where one cubemap ends and another begins. This RT update is a huge improvement.
i think is about screen space reflections which dissapear when the scene to be reflected is not in the screen
@@gamesthatmatter9374 ssr has its own problems, but what I'm talking about is when you approach the edge of a cubemap in the middle of a room. Its hard to explain through messages, but I know for a fact its part of the static lighting, it's definitely not ssr. I work with a program called blender a lot which has its own realtime renderer, its a problem I have to overcome myself so I always end up noticing it in games too
I personally felt like everything became way to mirror-y with the ray tracing on, like almost every object shows a clear reflection of the player, most of it looks way better of course but I felt some bits and pieces are just overkill
Almost like every object is a straight up 1.1 mirror image. Not defused enough. I would have liked to have seen RT lighting more than anything.
Yea, it seems like you can see reflections in transparent glass more than you can actually even see through it in many cases, which ends up kinda defying the point of transparent glass. It ends up looking kinda weird, but I'd probably still prefer it.
This is something i find in most if not all games with RTX, this is just not how reality behaves. Everything that is wet, does not become super shiny like a mirror, nor does all windows or glass surfaces instantly become shiny mirrors. It must be an issue they have trouble with fixing, because more realistic and thus less reflective would give the user higher fps? one would assume.
I'm not a graphics expert but playing with raytracing on with no raytraced reflections is better and runs way smoother.
@RMJ1984 you're really wrong here
Another excellent comparison. Not really played hitman, I’ve had many request to kill count them, one day I will and I’m looking forward to playing it with raytracing on. 👍
0:44 NVIDIA: Give me 2/3 of your performance for this
wow you are back .
Being honest, this game still looks really good whether you have RT on or off. In the end I ditched the idea of RT with my 3090 at 4K, it just won't quite cut it. Having 4K with the "standard" lighting was worth the sacrifice. The games looks insanely good.
It's a shame the reflections don't have any shadows. I see in at least Cyberpunk it casts very basic RT shadows inside the reflections with no sampling, just hard edged shadows. It helps a lot with selling the look especially in daylight.
Maybe the next version of dlss will fix this problem.
Did you put all 3 ray tracing settings on all at once? My rtx 3060 ti can only handle the 1st ray tracing option. When I put the reflection and sun shadow it's lag :(
Someone should make a mod entitled 'waxed and buffed 47' that adds an rt reactive spot above his barcode. Mark Twain would be proud. Just found this channel. I like. Subscribed.
Why is there no shadow reflected by glass?
very good 👍
Anyone has the same problem as me , whenever RT reflections are turned on , the game drops and stucks to 10 fps? The only map which works as intended with RT is on the top of the world map ... all the other maps are with the same problem for me. If I turn dlss to ultra performace the game runs fine as well.... Without RT I get a solid 110 fps without dlss. ( rtx 3070ti + ryzen 5600x , 3440x1440 )
what card u use? i got RTX 3050 and it wont let me turn on RTX
Here's some info on the ghosting. You can update the dlss file in this game. It's using a slightly older version, and when you replace it with the latest, the ghosting is removed.
Will have to try this out
where/how?
if we start modifying files then everything would go to shet...play as its made to be played buddy
@@divacroft1034 it's dlss... not game code. You can't go from dlss 1 to 2... it has to be from 2 to a newer 2.xx... but, you do you buddy.
@@divacroft1034 kinda like how mods made gta 5 singleplayer go to shit wait, they made it better?
Is ray traced gi the most demanding among ray tracing features ? For me personally games with ray traced gi is making the biggest visual difference but hardly anyone uses it
To be honest it depends take metro exodus and dying light 2 both use gi and only that effect is not that heavy compared to just reflections on every material to the point metro exodus doesnt ray trace every reflection but the problem with GI is you still need to place where the rays are gonna be shooting from then how many bounces and if they dont go the unlimitrd way or puta fair amount of rays its gonna look weird instead of reflections you only choose what surfaces need rays to reflect light and thats it but its for me the most heavy effect of all GI will be less heavy than reflections but heavier than shadows but needs more work compare to both
I didn't even realize what a big difference this makes.
i love that ioi did this but seeing other videos in this channel like the dying light 2 and metro exodus makes me want rtgi in every game now lol, kinda sad most dont
Glad you clarified that it's 1440p... I was about to go insane because at 4K, RT tanks the FPS terribly. I have 3080 12gb model
I think that 4k native res is not yet viable for RT, don't know about the 40xx series. I just about manage RT on with >60fps 1440p on most games with DLSS quality, though some great examples like Metro Exodus also perform well at native resolution. You could probably do 4k with stronger DLSS upscaling, but I personally like to stick closer to native.
The game is already stunning without RT enabled , RT is amazing 😍
Probably the most demanding ray tracing on a game yet. Still, with some mixed settings I can play comfortably with my 3060Ti. Only upgrading when they launch a 5060Ti😁.
Consider uploading 4K videos.
name of the song? please :(
You can see the cells on the back of 47s head.
Its just silly how something that should be normal feature in games, they add name tag to it, and make it burn more than half of your fps on some games. I remember on some old games there were mirrors in game and reflections looked sharp.
Gotta admit the game looks so amazing with it on it's easy to accept less fps, even with DLSS it looks fabulous. Since I don't need high fps might as well use all my gpu since you can't really buy one that doesn't have those options and it would be money lost to never use those cores. In multiplayer games where fps is favored you might as well turn rtx off but for things like hitman it's definitely staying on.
Try filming at 1080p so there's not much of a fps drop when u turn rtx on
I was getting screen tear within the reflections even when running in Gsync. I had to turn RT off because it was doing my head in. Have you noticed this in your testing?
shit monitor
Your framerate likely dipped too low for gsync to work anymore.
@@JustFeral it was over 100fps. Nothing wrong with the monitor. The tearing only happens in reflections
@@WarneysWorld Lol you are getting over 100 fps with rtx on? Ok.
@@Ayva_K yep, with DLSS balanced at 1440p.
damn that is so cool!!
My mind snaps back to mafia 3 mirrors… lol
Ray tracing is like an ever-rainy day. I never seen in my life asphalt every time like a mirror or with a omnipresent water layer. It's cool just for impress, but after 2 minutes annoying (also considering the frame rate drop!)
No matter what upgrades I have, it’ll never be Jack compared to Ray tracing!!!!! I CANT COMPETE
godamn it looks like a new game again
I get so much crashing when I have ray-tracing turned on in Hitman...feels like it might be a big buggy of an implementation.
It's basically unplayable on some missions with RTX3070 and Ryzen 5700x. Yes in the beginning of the mission with RT it can be 70-90FPS but in open areas sometimes it freezes hard and turns into slideshow + with agressive DLSS options the game looks like a mess. Without RT I'm easily getting 150+ fps with 2x scale render (FHD) and everything maxed out. The gameplay is just silky smooth like a dream... I guess only for top - 4000x series of GPUs (4080-4090) Ray Tracing is actually playable
so appart from mirrors & reflexion I don't see why I would divide my fps by 3
This video is good for those that say raytracing is a waste in gaming right now!
Bs that's not true
20fps with superb graphics (RT all on) vs 45fps with excellent graphics (RT sun shadows on) vs 150fps with great graphics (RT off). Which one would you choose?
a pity I cant fine a video with 1080p ultra with RTX on max between 3080 10gb vs 4070ti sigh, in 3080 it get 30 fps in 1080p in ultra is very taxing and is the game with the most taxing RTX when on, i wonder if rtx 4070 ti get a better ray tracing support for at least 60 fps stable
Looks like they aplied it only on reflective surfaces. I see limited usage of rtx here.
Probably not gonna happen but I hope the current gen consoles get a Ray Tracing/30FPS toggle
Do we now get to see if it was a number one or number two before we drown them in a loo? Otherwise I'm not satisfied! 🤔
How intensive is ray tracing in this game, because requirements where pretty bloody high.
Very, it doesn't feel smooth without DLSS even with a 3080.
@@RayTracingRevolution damn, which is less intensive in this game, shadows or reflections?
I have an RTX 3080 and the game is unplayable with RTX enabled at 1440p... especially in Sapienza. The FPS hit is insane.
@@commie_remover ??? I’m getting 60 fps w mine. Wbu?
@@Drip7914 that's very strange, when playing Landslide in Sapienza, everything ultra, 1440p, DLSS highest quality, every RT setting turned on, I'm getting 30-58 FPS roughly on average and 20 ms latency. That's quite unplayable and feels like playing on console.
Sometimes ray tracing seems to be a bit overkill. It gets to the point that too many things are reflective, which makes it look wet and more unrealistic.
I prefer off for glass reflexion. It's too clear, it's confusing XD
The reflections already built in look amazing and RT in most cases makes no differences, even adds some artifacting. It's not worth it.
How do I turn ray tracing on console hitman 3?
@Andrew Marquette not even next gen?
Love RT, but developers mistake windows for mirrors. Just add some opacity ffs
A very taxing feature for some small differences in lighting and reflections. In a few years maybe this technology will be better implemented. But for now it's a gimmick that does not worth the perfomance cost.
Aren't you being negative
Maybe in a generation or two, GPU's can actually handle it...
Try in a couple of months my dude, 4000 series is just around the corner, it will run ray traced games at double the fps of 3000 series.
@@HeloisGevit Yeah something like that, hence the "in a generation". But initial benchmarks should be taken with a grain of salt, hence the ".. or two" ;)
I handle it in 4k HDR on my 3090, and it's so gorgeous now.
@@Safetytrousers "Handle it", means something else to you then.
@@st0rm617 What does 'handle it' mean to you? How do you know what my handle it is compared to your handle it when you haven't defined what you mean by handle it and I have not said what I think handle it means.
It's a real shame devs made it impossible to activate RT Shadows on older GPUs like Pascal series. I had 0 problems running RT stuff in CONTROL or, say, official Nvidia RTX Attic Demo, but not here, the options are greyed out and impossible to tick in the menus (just like in F1 2021, sadly). No way to force RT in config files either (yet again, just like in F1 2021, however, from what I could gather H3 doesn't even have a dedicated cfg file relying on Windows registry instead). It's a damn shame because if I want to see ray tracing effects - just let me do so, dang it! No matter the perf hit, I know what I want and I know it better than devs do. But alas, devs keep doing things like this without actually asking players like me.
call it a hunch but i don't think you're going to be playing at around 10 - 20 fps for long, no matter the lighting effects
@@i_love_games110 you're right, I won't be playing full game with those effects, I just want to have freedom to toggle them on and off when I want to, and that's all.
Better than nvidia promotion
Not buying a $1000+ dollar GPU so I will enjoy this in the not so far away future.
his head is shinier
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2:30 Why do the RT shadows look so soft there? They're supposed to be really sharp.
If I may answer, it is because as the source of a shadow gets farther away from what the shadow is casting on, it will get blurrier. Eg: a tree, where the sun is low; near the base it will be 'sharp' but farther down the road where the shadow goes, it will get 'softer'. I personally don't like the sharp shadows of RT... too goofy looking and the reflections are distracting, like there is 'another space' behind windows, etc. It needs to all be softer it seems
Game runs relatively good still, pc did not go brrr
wow - I wondered if it's just me just not seeing the differences - but wow - they're so small that even with this direct comparrison all I see is an improvement in the reflections no better lightning, no better shadows - not worth it - I rather take the better quality and more frames in standard rasterization
My PC is gonna nuke itself.
It looks amazing but god even with dlls on the game still runs very bad ,from 100fps to 30-40 in some locations it's not worth it until they make it run better
Almost exact mirror reflections look a little unrealistic to real life. They should tone it down.
i don't like how glass reflects in hitman, it looks terrible, since when glass reflects like a mirror??, everything looks too clean, other than that, shadow rt looks good
Ray Tracing on = Slide show on rtx 3090 ti
yes its all good. i went from 140 fps to 40 fps with RTX ON LMAOOOO
Not sure if you noticed in real life but windows do not reflect everything at night as it shows in the game with rt on Feels like games took the RT Way too far and almost made ale very floor and wall look like a mirror
The problem isn't ray tracing, it's the fact that the materials were designed with cubemaps in mind. Cubemaps are blurry, so they probably turn down the roughness (hence making everything look shinier) to counter the effects and make it look realistic. But when you introduce ray tracing, which is physically accurate, all the materials will look too shiny due to the the way they were designed.
@@pixels_per_inch surely there's improvement in the game makes it more desirable the question is the players who finished the game numerous times are they gonna be excited or too bored as there no new levels, the blood pools that npc leaves don't make any smudges when you walk on them moreover, after you shoot someone in the head there's a red mark on their face for sure and after you take their clothes the red mark on their face disappears as they are no longer been shot in the head? With all the blood splatters and spills when you shoot npcs against walls it makes you believe that they really mastered the graphics but no... The hitman code is done exactly like In hitman codename 47 from year 2000 22 years ago and what a shame, now they are pulling the ray tracing card on the fans making them loon at shiny walls and wannabe shadows from exterior buildings which no one cared about. But hey the game is perfectly repayable so let's just reload sapienza again with a bit sharper graphics again for the 3rd time 😂😂😂😂💜 like I can go on and ask the question, did no one hired anyone in the graphics department to make the game more realistic and make the blood behave better is it something to do with effects? Or 2022 isn't a good od year to spend and invest some of their so called advertised surprisingly well off made profits from the success of the third release of the game leaving players wait 4-5 days at launch day before they can access their online account avoiding disconnects
@@meetdtruth5600 NPCs don't react to blood so it's in the devs favor to downplay it, graphically.
@@tesko_1 except it doesn't feel real when you play it
@Mystic what do you mean? (justin bieber) I played the game 46384738384 hours ;) and I can pretty much tell that the surgeon in hokkaido does his own kills
Too bad the ray tracing tanks the fps by 80-100 fps on a rtx 3080 here's hoping for the rtx 4080.
This game is begging for FSR 2.0 as well.
They said is coming but in the same update as intel xsse so thats gonna be a while
This is all fine and dandy. Looks great. But if you cant even get realistic kills blood spray explosion kills!...........Who cares!
I care a lot, in 4k HDR it is all so gorgeous now.
@@Safetytrousers im happy for you
3000 series, 4k without DLSS I'm getting 15-20 fps. With DLSS quality, I'm getting average 30 fps. Balanced doesn't look good to me, but I'm getting about 7 fps more. Without ray tracing, get about 80 fps, 100 fps with DLSS. Interestingly, GPU only shows 80% use. Does change some scenes quite a bit though.
Rt is ps5 graphics and Rt off is ps4 graphics
It’s nice but it cost a fortune on performance
Yeah dude wait 5 years or so and RT will be much more commonplace, it's still a relatively unoptimized feature in most games, but the technology is always making leaps and bounds and being implemented into more games. However, right now it's not really worth the insane cost and performance hit, just for some mostly unnoticeable changes in lighting, shading, and reflections. Also rasterized lighting such as in RDR2 is improving quite a bit so there will always be less taxing alternatives.
No RTGI and RTAO, a little disappointed.
When a game has decent pre-computed probe based GI not having RTGI isnt a problem, RTGI biggest wins are wen you compare to games that relly on more simple rasterisation tecniques, generaly found on games that are open world or with a dinamic time of day, but for titles like this that have a static time of day their biggest improvements really come from reflections and shadows.
No time cycle or even dynamic ligths it will look the same to be honest is a fixed time game reflections and shadows are the best options here
Imo the glass reflections are too strong
Bruh I know gamers never go outside but have you not seen polished glass irl or videos? It is very reflective, that's the whole point of glass. It can never be too strong, makes no sense.
@@HeloisGevit well you almost cant look through it
@@DTunezOfficial That's also true of glass IRL when there's a lot of light being reflected off it. Sometimes you need to go right up against it and cup your hands to see through.
@@HeloisGevit yeah thats true. Maybe i just notice it now because im really judging it now instead of just watching it
@@DTunezOfficial I think your observation is reasonable, but just to give some context.. It's not that the reflections are too strong, It's that the glass material is too "perfect".. In real life, glass has subtle scratches, dirts, & spots on its surface, and all of those create a slightly more muted reflection.. This game is not created/textured with RT in mind, thus the glass surfaces don't have those imperfections.
Doesnt look that much different
ray tracing is never worth it, all it does is stress your PC and GPU
Meh
Too bad it makes the game run like ass
The issue is the reflections don’t look great. I’m guessing if you had to use DLSS you don’t have a good enough PC to run the reflections on ultra. I have to assume higher settings look way better the the blocky mess in the video
Actually the rasterize refleactions in every map of hitmam excpet hitman 3 maps are cubemaps no matter the refelction settings you use the maps from 1 and 2 had little to no plannar and ssr reflections in them so they striaght up look terrible hitman 3 map they use a lot of plannar and ssr reflections so thats the thing going on there basically no pc can get better reflections on those maps unless they use RT reflections
There are no quality options for the ray tracing, but there are 3 aspects of ray tracing you can have on or off.
Great, now they are gonna make games look like shit with RT off just because they are lazy to put in the effort for nice reflections without RT on. GTA 5 is an example of effort and it is many years old already. Same marketing trick like with the 500hz monitor and them using the same video they used to compare 30 vs 60 vs 144fps before. My comment is underrated !
Thats not it bro hitman 1 and 2 maps didnt had ssr or plannar reflections like 3 does so they use cube maps in the windows to have something reflected but hitman 3 maps dont change a lot with RT only 1 and 2 maps had the best glow up
After playing my first RTX game I uninstalled GTA5 as soon as I played it again because the shadows looked so bad in comparison.
@@Safetytrousers then you're a person who prefers graphics to great gameplay I guess. And also GTA 5 is super old and still great looking
@@experiencewithmartin972 I'd already played GTAv all the way through about 4 times by then and played 100's of hours online.
Another excellent comparison. Not really played hitman, I’ve had many request to kill count them, one day I will and I’m looking forward to playing it with raytracing on. 👍