Here are all the confirmed ray tracing and DLSS games so far

Get your RTX and RDNA 2 graphics cards at the ready

Feature by Katharine Castle Editor-in-chief

Updated on 14 Jul, 2021

The number of games that support ray tracing and Nvidia's DLSS tech is getting bigger all the time, with Red Dead Redemption 2 and its online counterpart Red Dead Online being some of the latest blockbusters to join the ranks. Ray tracing is the big new graphics tech being added to PC games this year, and it's probably one of the biggest reasons why you'd want to upgrade to one of today's best graphics cards. That's why we've put together this list of all the confirmed ray tracing games you can play on PC right now, as well which ones support Nvidia's performance-boosting DLSS tech as well.

Previously, you needed an Nvidia RTX card to take advantage of games with ray tracing support, but now that AMD's Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards have arrived, you can take advantage of these realistic reflections and lighting effects on both Nvidia RTX cards and any AMD Radeon RX 6000 GPU. What's more, Intel's upcoming Xe graphics cards are also set to support ray tracing when they eventually arrive later this year, giving you even more choice when it comes to buying a ray tracing-capable GPU.

Right now, the number of ray tracing games you can actually play on PC is still on the slim side, but it's gradually getting larger. Indeed, now that the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 have both launched, it's only a matter of time before this list starts getting even bigger. Both of these next-gen consoles have built-in ray tracing support, which will hopefully mean that more developers will start adding ray tracing to their games as a matter of course. For now, though, these are all the ray tracing games on PC you can play right now.

Ray tracing games you can play right now:

Amid Evil
Battlefield V
Bright Memory
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
Control
Crysis Remastered
Cyberpunk 2077
Deliver Us The Moon
Dirt 5
Doom Eternal
Everspace 2
Fortnite
Ghostrunner
Godfall
Justice
Lego: Builder's Journey
Mechwarrior V: Mercenaries
Metro Exodus / Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition
Minecraft
Moonlight Blade
Mortal Shell
Observer: System Redux
Pumpkin Jack
Quake II RTX
Resident Evil Village
Ring Of Elysium
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Stay in the Light
The Fabled Woods
The Medium
The Persistence
Watch Dogs Legion
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands
Wrench
Xuan-Yuan Sword VII

The good news is that more ray tracing games are on the way, and below you'll find all the other upcoming ray tracing games we currently know about. Some are old games getting new ray tracing updates, others are brand-new titles that haven't been released yet. Alas, there's no guarantee that all of these games will get ray tracing at launch, but with a little bit of luck, the games you see below will eventually join the ray tracing games listed above.

Ray tracing games on the way:

Atomic Heart
Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora
Boundary
Dying: 1983
Dying Light 2
Enlisted
Far Cry 6
F.I.S.T: Forged In Shadow Torch
Five Nights At Freddy's: Security Breach
Forza Horizon 5
Hitman 3
Icarus
Justice Online
JX Online 3
Ready Or Not
Synced: Off-Planet
Stalker 2
The Ascent
The Riftbreaker
The Witcher III: Complete Edition
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2

DLSS games you can play right now:

Thankfully, the number of games that support Nvidia's DLSS tech is much larger than the number of ray tracing games right now - which is excellent news for Nvidia RTX card owners looking to squeeze some extra frames out of their new GPU. Unlike ray tracing, these games do require the use of an Nvidia RTX card, as DLSS is a proprietary technology exclusive to Nvidia. It's an AI-powered upscaling technology that helps to boost performance at higher resolutions (particularly when you've got ray tracing enabled), and many of today's big ray tracing games such as Watch Dogs Legions simply aren't playable without it. Without further ado, then, here are all the Nvidia DLSS games you can currently play right now:

Amid Evil
Anthem
Aron's Adventure
Battlefield V
Bright Memory
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare
Call Of Duty: Warzone
Chernobylite
Control
Crsed: F.O.A.D
Crysis Remastered
Cyberpunk 2077
Death Stranding
Deliver Us The Moon
Doom Eternal
Edge Of Eternity
Enlisted
Everspace 2
F1 2020
Final Fantasy XV
Fortnite
Ghostrunner
Iron Conflict
Into The Radius
Iron Conflict
Justice
Lego: Builder's Journey
Marvel's Avengers
Mechwarrior V: Mercenaries
Metro Exodus / Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition
Minecraft
Monster Hunter: World
Moonlight Blade
Mortal Shell
Mount & Blade II Bannerlord
Naraka: Bladepoint
Necromunda: Hired Gun
Nioh 2: The Complete Edition
No Man's Sky
Outriders
Pumpkin Jack
Rainbow Six Siege
Ready Or Not
Red Dead Redemption 2
Red Dead Online
Redout: Space Assault
Rust
Scavengers
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Supraland
The Fabled Woods
The Medium
The Persistence
War Thunder
Watch Dogs Legion
Wolfenstein Youngblood
Wrench
Xuan-Yuan Sword VII

The introduction of DLSS 2.0 in games such as Death Stranding marked a real turning point for Nvidia's performance-boosting upscaling tech. Whereas previous DLSS games looked noticeably blurry with DLSS enabled, DLSS 2.0 is now indistinguishable from a game's native resolution.

Nvidia say there are more DLSS games on the way, too. DLSS has now been integrated into both the Unreal Engine and Unity game-making tools now, so it should be much easier for developers to start adding in support for it.

That said, several games Nvidia have announced over the past few years still haven't received their intended DLSS support yet, and consequently I've removed some of the titles that were previously included on this list, as even Nvidia seem to have forgotten about them in their most recent DLSS announcements. Instead, the games below are definitely confirmed to be getting DLSS support, based on the most recent information available to us.

DLSS games on the way:

Atomic Heart
Battlefield 2042
Boundary
Dying: 1983
FIST: Forged In Shadow Torch
Five Nights At Freddy's Security Breach
Icarus: First Combat
JX3
Lego Builder's Journey
System Shock (2021, available now in the demo)
The Ascent
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2

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