Basemark “Breaking Limit” Ray Tracing Benchmark Now Out, Tested With NVIDIA, AMD & Intel GPUs

Basemark has just released its latest ray tracing benchmark called Breaking Limit which can be used to evaluate GPU performance across various devices including PCs running NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPU hardware.

NVIDIA Remains The King of The Hill In Basemark Breaking Limit Ray-Tracing Benchmark While AMD Passes Ampere RT Performance

There aren't a whole lot of ray-tracing-specific benchmarks out there. The ones that come to mind are 3DMark and its various RT evaluation benchmarks. Now, Basemark has rolled out its latest and cross-platform "Breaking Limit" benchmark which not only supports a wide range of high-end GPU hardware but can also be tested on various devices such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops.

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Basemark's Breaking Limit benchmark has two modes, a standard one and an Ultra mode is best suited to high-end GPUs on desktop PCs while the standard mode is made for the rest of the platforms including entry-level PCs. The best part is that the benchmark comes with support for FSR (AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution) & DLSS (NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling) support. It also features compatibility in both DirectX 12 and Vulkan APIs.

The benchmark is free to download and you can grab it at this link to try it yourself and see how your hardware fares. We tested a few graphics cards of our own for now and found the results to be rather interesting.

Basemark Breaking Limit Ultra (Vulkan)

StandardFSR2DLSS2 04080120160200240 04080120160200240 RTX 4090 60104114 RTX 4080 SUPER 4992101 RTX 4070 Ti SUPER 407583 RX 7900 XTX 31590.1 RTX 4070 SUPER 295764 RX 7900 XT 29530.1 RTX 3090 254854 RTX 4060 Ti 173240 RTX 4060 142837 RTX 3060 Ti 122330 Arc A770 9160.1

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 OC Results:

Our observation reveals that the Vulkan APU provides the best score in each respective benchmark but when DirectX 12 API is enabled, the benchmark yields a higher performance