??? I dont know why you are saying the performance hit is too massive, I'll be playing Cyberpunk with RT and DLSS at a good frame rate on my 3090 and adoring the look of it. I'm playing through Controll and amazed at it with a rock solid 60fps. I'm playing COD with RT at 4k and hitting 60fps. Performance is good enough to be enjoy RT games now at consistent 60fps (with DLSS).
I think thats the con. " With DLSS". Without DLSS most new games at those resolutions are almost unplayable. Ray tracing hasn't been shown off in a big meaningful way yet. On top of DXR re-write not 100% done neither is Fidelity fx which to me is open source, and is not using AI re-scaled images. It's rescaling effects, and the rendered resolutions of those effects not the entire rendered image.
If you are telling me I can tone down ray traced reflections to 1080p like how Sony is doing it in GT7, but my final rendered image is a native 4k to me thats more compelling. And the fact everything shown from AMD is not Proprietary outside of infinity cache. SMART MEMORY ACCESS can be used by other companies if they program for it.
Radeon SEEMS more focused on overall just good gaming performance that matters the most.
Not saying people are not going to go and buy nvidia cards and be super impressed playing Ray traced games, I MEAN obviously people like yourself are sold on the idea.
But to down play a compelling product that unanimously everyone who reviewed it is talking about, after 4-5 years of not competing in the high end sector is disingenuous.