Microsoft has released the largest DirectX ray tracing upgrade since 2018: AMD RX 9070 example performance improvement of about 66 times

Microsoft has released the official version of DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.620 and the preview version 1.722, bringing updates such as cluster geometry and PTLAS to DXR to reduce ray tracing computational overhead. On the AMD RX 9070, cluster geometry boosts performance from 1.2 FPS to 79 FPS, an increase of about 66 times, with memory usage reduced by nearly 90%. New features require support from graphics card manufacturers, currently covering NVIDIA RTX, AMD RX 9000 series, and Intel Arc graphics cards.