The best graphics cards all support ray tracing now, whether you use a Nvidia RTX card or an AMD Radeon one (assuming it’s from the RX 6000 range). 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
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:
- Amid Evil
- Battlefield 2042
- Battlefield V
- 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
- Deliver Us to the Moon
- Dirt 5
- Dolmen
- Doom Eternal
- Dying Light 2 Stay Human
- Escape from Naraka
- Everspace 2
- Exit From
- F.I.S.T.: Forged in Shadow Torch
- F1 2021
- Far Cry 6
- Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach
- Fortnite
- Forza Horizon 5 (showroom only)
- Gears 5
- Ghostrunner
- Ghostwire: Tokyo
- Godfall
- Grid Legends
- Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
- Hitman 3
- Hood: Outlaws & Legends
- House of Ashes
- Icarus
- Industria
- JX3 Online
- Lego Builder’s Journey
- Life is Strange: True Colors
- Little Nightmares II
- Maneater
- Martha is Dead
- Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
- MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
- Metro Exodus
- Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition (always on)
- Minecraft: Bedrock Edition
- Mortal Online 2
- Mortal Shell
- Myst (2021)
- Observer: System Redux
- Paradise Killer
- Pumpkin Jack
- Quake II RTX
- Raji: An Ancient Epic
- Resident Evil Village
- Ride 4
- Ring of Elysium
- Severed Steel
- Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- Sniper Elite 5
- Sonic Robo Blast 2
- Stay in the Light
- Sword and Fairy 7
- Teardown (always on)
- The Ascent
- The Fabled Woods
- The King of Fighters XV
- The Medium
- The Moonlight Blade
- The Riftbreaker
- War Thunder
- Watch Dogs: Legion
- Wolfenstein: Youngblood
- Xuan-Yuan Sword VII
Ray tracing games coming soon
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 that have 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
- F1 2022
- Halo Infinite
- Layers of Fear
- Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
- Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
- On Air
- Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
- Stray
- The Day Before
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
What you need for ray tracing on PC
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 GPU with the latest graphics card driver installed. Upcoming generations of graphics cards, such as AMD’s RX 7000 range and Nvidia’s RTX 40-series, should support ray tracing as well.
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 of those, if either are available, if you want to play a game with ray tracing.
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