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 terms of ray tracing performance, the RDNA 4-based GPU has a clear improvement over its RDNA 3 counterpart, offering 73% faster performance than the 7600 XT, while also edging ahead of the RTX 5060 by 4%, though it does fall behind the 5060 Ti by 13%.
At 1440p, the 9060 XT again falls behind the 5060 Ti, this time by 15%, and holds the same 4% lead over the RTX 5060, but again shows the strong uplift over the previous generation with a 76% increase in performance.
