You've been able to read our many Radeon RX 6800 reviews, where we noted that DirectX Raytracing performance does lack quite a bit compared to NVIDIA"s the latest generation. However, VULKAN just started supporting raytracing as well.

The Khronos Group released an extension for the use of Ray Tracing with Vulkan. Vulkan is an open source API that traces way back towards AMD's own Mantle API if you can remember it. Somewhat a solution or alternative to OpenGL. However, the Ray Tracing extension for Vulkan relies heavily on the VK_NV_ray_tracing extension that Nvidia worked hard to support RT on Vulkan. Some early testing has been performed, and that paints a rather red picture for AMD's Radeon 6800 XT. Testing was performed in Quake II RTX, which uses a full path tracer to render for its non-complicated 1997 geometry.

Radeon RX 6800 XT performs half as good compared to RTX 3080 in Vulkan Ray Tracing tests