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Chazore said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Linus did a video where he has people play a few games and see if they could tell the difference between which games has Ray Tracing and which games don't.

The conclusion is, the technical people were able to tell but the more casual ones weren't. Of course the problem with the entire comparison is that he mainly used games that has very light uses of Ray Tracing instead of something modern like Cyberpunk. He did use Minecraft RTX as well but he also left it at a base map instead of creating something that could showcase Ray Tracing.

So while the video could have been interesting, I think that was poor execution.

No offence to Linus, but I think of him these days as more of a gimmick and click-bait kinda guy. He shows off all these gizmos he's tinkering with at his stupid, chucking in so many Linus shop ads (getting pretty sick of those already), and flip flopping back and forth with "guy this, no wait don't buy this X company personally gyped me"

I find myself watching GN a bit more than Linus these days, mostly because he's straight to the point, doesn't shove ads like Linus does, and isn't so flippity floppity.

Also, going by the tests he did with RTX, doesn't come off as entirely faithful of a test, when like you said, he wasn't using the RT heavy games, and instead opted for the ones where RT basically matters so little, making the test not a decent one to even bother with. (Also doesn't help his creditability when he resorted to telling us when to Mine for bitcoin, when he told us beforehand that Mining is bad and sucks). 

Yea pretty much. It feels like his objective was to show that there isn't much of a difference rather than his objective being a true comparison. Quite the shame really as it could have been interesting.