Resident Evil 9 ray tracing looks damn fine with a powerful Nvidia GeForce GPU

Prepare to return to the hellish world of Raccoon City in Resident Evil 9 with ultra-realistic lighting, as long as you have a really powerful new Nvidia GeForce graphics card. Nvidia has confirmed that the new Resident Evil 9 Requiem will support DLSS 4 and path tracing, an advanced form of ray tracing, when the game launches next year, but you’ll probably need a top-spec GPU to make it playable.

Path tracing is a seriously impressive upgrade to regular ray tracing that can make games look ultra-realistic, but it takes a lot of GPU firepower to make it work, with top-spec Nvidia GPUs, such as those in our best graphics card guide, best-suited to the challenge. In our Doom The Dark Ages path tracing testing, for example, only an RTX 5080 or better could play that GPU-intensive game with path tracing at 1080p with decent frame rates, while AMD's latest GPUs really struggle with it, and we’re not expecting Resident Evil Requiem to be that different.

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