Ray Tracing vs. Path Tracing: Unraveling the Differences 

Infact, They are technically the same thing, but the implementation is different. So-called ray tracing effects are added to a rasterized scene, and effects can be divided into ray-traced reflections, ray-traced GI, etc. So you can disable less important effects and have better performance. The path tracing method constructs the whole frame using rays with all effects on with adding color estimation. No rasterization and more expensive. Direct and indirect lighting quality depends on bounce count, not the implementation. You will still have less correct indirect lighting with path tracing if you limit bounces to fewer counts.

All i notice is that path tracing is just brighter 😂

The difference is this: Path tracing bounces on 100% every geometry objectin your scene. Imagine foliage, water, leaves on a tree, everything. You can imagine that in realtime this would destroy your framerate. This is why path tracing is an offline, post processing intensive gpu task. It works on a single frame at a time. Therefore, single shot renders or movie renders are perfect for path tracing. Ray tracing is for high fps realtime gaming and therefore less realistic and less performance intensive.

very good comparison. brilliantly done.

Path tracing appears to produce the majority of the best results in these examples although lower-tier GPUs will struggle with it. In the Cyberpunk 2077 examples, for instance, it looks like I would have to employ DLSS upscaling to make up for the performance loss. A great-looking game that runs poorly isn't fun, in my opinion.

Good movie

Using path tracing reduces shadow load and introduces unnecessary light.

Does nvidia 1650 and 16 gb ram .can handle both ray tracing and path tracing?

Buen video y explicación. Estaría bueno que, si agarrás fragmentos de videos de otras personas, lo menciones en alguna parte. Por ejemplo, los de cyberpunk. Sorry but i dont know much english

RAY TRACING... let's add more details to the dark and light bits... like better contrast kinda thing PATH tracing - add MORE light to everything everywhere and reflect everything everywhere

Very good !!

Rt is better for animations it’s seems.. but the other aspects of 3d work will also make break throughs.. such as Models and textures..

Ray tracing is a cheap trick to try and do what they cant do but all gtx cards did full realtime path tracing no studio or 3d designer would use raytracing because its not in real-time its created on another process then put together with the lagg , path tracing is how we always did it in real time in the game hence why only creator pcs nobody wants rt cards above the 20 series for gaming or comples compute now they need to use ai on low ecor worse tech in 20 years we havent advance we went backward since 2080ti. people dont look at what lane speed or why 16 is the magic number in sending data 8 n 8 all at once hence 2 sticks ddr4 16 n 16 any more is slower any more cores is bad unless you multi task running many programs that create lag when the come together and bottlenecks, hence why ram ISNT COMPARABLE ON A CARD THATS USING 22 GB if its inp n out it to 10 CCORES its like a 1.2gb gfx card yet they say need more vram and blame devs when the games run perfect on gtx cards with only 4gb vram even doing 4k native smooth, because monolithic better cpus and gaming boards VS A MONO HAVING 11GB TO IT AT ONCE 64BIT VS X64 X86 XX86 OR XX64 READ ABOUT THE TRICKERY TO FOOL YOU WHY AMD ARE NOT THE SAME AS INTEL IN THE FLAGSHIP DAYS WHY THE SOCKET SUDDENLY GORT DOUBLE THE LEGS THATS NOT GOOD ITS MORE CHIPS MORE LATENCY 2 PROCSSORS LYING TO SOUND BIGGER N FASTER THAN 1 FAST PROCESSOR, YOU CANT HAVE LOW POWER AND BE ABLE TO BEAT THE HIGH END COMPUTE CPUS AND GPUS SOMETHING GIVES N THATS QUALITY, SND N GFX, RESOLUTION SCALING CANT DO NATIVE RAYS IT HAS TO RENDER THE IMAGE ON MEMORY INSTAED OF IN REAL TIME IN THE PROCESSOR. GAMERS DONT WANT CREATOR PC SOLD TODAY WITH GAMING PC LABEL ON IT, THEY AINT ANYGOOD.

ray tracing looks better in all the environments except for 6:50 when its looking outside from indoors, path tracing was the superior one there.

RT OFF is better

Ray Tracing is a gimmick to sell games and graphics cards at sky high price