The best graphics cards all support ray tracing now, whether you use an Nvidia RTX card or an AMD Radeon one (assuming it’s from the RX 6000 range or perhaps one of the latest RX 7000-series cards). We rounded up every game that supports ray tracing on PC now, as well as several titles that will support the sophisticated lighting tech in the future.
Ray tracing is demanding on your graphics card, but the list of ray tracing PC games continues to grow. If you don’t want to sort through the mess, make sure to read our roundup on the best ray-tracing PC games to know which ones to download first. And if you’re a beginner, jump to the bottom section to find out what you need for ray tracing on PC.
Ray-tracing PC games available now
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Although dozens of games support ray tracing, it doesn’t always come in the same form. Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition only uses ray tracing, for example, while Forza Horizon 5 doesn’t have ray tracing in the main game (just in the showroom for your cars). Both are still among the best games to show off your PC, though.
The good news is that games support AMD Radeon and Nvidia RTX ray tracing now, so you don’t have to be worried about getting locked out with a specific graphics card. Here are all of the ray tracing games on PC you can play now:
A Plague Tale: Requiem
Amid Evil
Arcadegeddon
Aron’s Adventure
Batora: Lost Haven
Battlefield 2042
Battlefield V
Blind Fate: Edo no Yami
Brickadia
Bright Memory
Bright Memory: Infinite
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Call of the Sea
Chernobylite
Chorus
Control
Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View
Crysis Remastered
Crysis 2 Remastered
Crysis 3 Remastered
Cyberpunk 2077
Deathloop
Dead Space (2023)
Deliver Us to the Moon
Dirt 5
Dolmen
Doom Eternal
Dying Light 2 Stay Human
Elden Ring
Escape from Naraka
Exit From
Everspace 2
Exit From
F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch
F1 2021
F1 22
Far Cry 6
Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach
Fobia — St. Dinfna Hotel
Forspoken
Fortnite
Forza Horizon 5
Forza Motorsport
Fritz Chess 18
Gears 5
Ghostrunner
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Godfall
Gotham Knights
Gungrave G.O.R.E
Grid Legends
Gripper
Halo Infinite
Helios
Hell Pie
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
Hello Neighbor 2
Hitman 3
Hitman: World of Assassination
Hood: Outlaws & Legends
House of Ashes
Icarus
In The Black
Industria
Jurassic World Evolution 2
Justice Online
JX3 Online
Layers of Fear (2023)
Lego Builder’s Journey
Lies of P
Life is Strange: True Colors
Little Nightmares II
Loopmancer
Maneater
Martha is Dead
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
Marvel’s Midnight Suns
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
Metro Exodus
Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition (always on)
Minecraft: Bedrock Edition
Moonlight Blade
Mortal Online 2
Mortal Shell
Myst (2021)
Myth of Empires
Observer: System Redux
Paradise Killer
Poker Club
Portal RTX
Pumpkin Jack
Quake II RTX
Q.U.B.E. 10th Anniversary
Raji: An Ancient Epic
Redout: Space Assault
Resident Evil 2
Resident Evil 3
Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Resident Evil Village
Returnal
Ride 4
Ring of Elysium
Rune II
Sackboy: A Big Adventure
Saints Row
Severed Steel
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Sniper Elite 5
Sonic Robo Blast 2
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
Stay in the Light
Steelrising
Stray
Sword and Fairy 7
Synced
Teardown (always on)
The Ascent
The Callisto Protocol
The Devil in Me
The DioField Chronicle
The Fabled Woods
The Idolmaster: Starlit Season
The King of Fighters XV
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
The Medium
The Moonlight Blade
The Persistence
The Riftbreaker
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Titan Station
To Hell With It
Tower of Fantasy
Trail Out
Turbo Sloths
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
War Thunder
Watch Dogs: Legion
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
World of Warcraft
Wrench
Xuan-Yuan Sword VII
Ray tracing games coming soon
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Ray tracing is launching in new games and coming to old ones all the time, so we rounded up ray-tracing PC games that are coming soon. Some of these titles are new releases that will include ray tracing — such as Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered — while others will receive a ray tracing update at some point (like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt).
There are new ray tracing games coming all the time and even more with reported updates in the works. We kept our list to games that are confirmed to have ray tracing, but the list of upcoming games with the tech is likely much larger. Here are all of the ray-tracing PC games coming soon:
Atomic Heart
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
Black Myth: Wukong
On Air
Skull and Bones
The Day Before
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
What you need for ray tracing on PC
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Ray tracing isn’t available across the board on PC, even if you’re playing a game with ray tracing support. You need an Nvidia RTX or AMD Radeon RX 6000 or AMD Radeon RX 7000 GPU with the latest graphics card driver installed.
Although ray tracing is a staple of modern GPUs, that doesn’t make it any less demanding. Nvidia offers Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) for its cards to improve performance. On the other hand, AMD has FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), which works with both Nvidia and AMD cards. We recommend turning on either one of those, if they are available if you want to play a game with ray tracing.
You may want to consider DLSS 3 frame generation, or FSR frame generation too, though those technologies are only supported by a handful of games at the time of writing.
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