That's fine. You value RT. The overwhelming majority of players turn that shit off because it kills performance. Just like you wouldn't spend $550 on a card that is perfectly not trash, I wouldn't spend $850 on a card for a feature I'm going to disable.

I was recommending him cards in the given budget.

Thanks jd... I do appreciate the recommendation.

Not to bicker, but nobody that's capable of running ray tracing is turning that shit off. Ray tracing is gorgeous and creates a completely new level of in game immersion. The AMD cards are good cards. But I've been fortunate enough to see a direct comparison of high end AMD/NVidia cards in the same machine, and the NVidia simply looks better. Ray tracing and DLSS is a really amazing technology. Combine that with a high refresh rate monitor capable of G-Sync, that's about the best you can get. AMD is quite a ways behind in the ray tracing capabilities. Not trying to poo poo on the AMD cards. They are really powerful cards.

As a person who mostly plays competitive FPS games, I will absolutely turn that shit off every single time.

I spent the extra money so that I don't have to. :shrug:

Enjoy your 95th percentile PC, man. They keep improving their drivers and DLSS 3 so your performance will only get better.