Ray tracing now works on some GTX cards — here’s how they perform

You no longer need an Nvidia RTX card to try out some of the company’s RTX features, including DirectX Raytracing. Anyone with a GTX 1060 6GB or better can now turn on DXR in any game that supports it. All you have to do is download Nvidia’s latest driver update from the GeForce Experience app.

But isn’t ray tracing crushing even for RTX cards? How is your GTX 1070 going to handle it? Well, Nvidia has some answers for that. And, in general, yeah — you’re going to get 60 frames per second on ultra settings at 1440p. But some implementations of ray tracing will run better on older cards than others.