Every PS5 game with ray tracing support in 2023

Ray tracing in PS5 games can make lighting, shadows and reflections look more realistic, but not every game supports it

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The PS5 is a powerful console and supports cutting-edge features like ray tracing, something that simply isn’t possible on the PS4 or PS4 Pro.

If you’re new to the technology, ray tracing can make games look more realistic. It allows developers to implement accurate lighting, reflections, and shadows into video games that help make worlds look more believable and akin to what we expect in real life.

However, not every PS5 game has ray tracing support. In fact, out of all the titles on our best PS5 games list, only six PlayStation 5 games support ray tracing. The list is slim, but it’s slowly growing over time.

That doesn’t mean ray tracing isn’t a worthwhile feature. It just takes a lot of processing power and isn’t currently a priority for some developers or even gamers. We’ve seen some games receive ray tracing support many months after launch, like Elden Ring, but it isn’t a guarantee.

Sony’s rumored PS5 Pro could change how developers approach ray tracing, however. The console’s extra power will reportedly allow for accelerated ray tracing, so we should see better performance and more titles take advantage of the technology.

If you’re looking for every PS5 game with ray tracing support, then, check out the titles below. We’ll update this list as more games are announced in the future. You can also find every Xbox Series X game with ray tracing support in 2023.

If you’re not interested in ray tracing and would rather play games at a higher frame rate, our PS5 120fps games and Xbox Series X 120fps games list every title that supports 120Hz.

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PS5 games with ray tracing

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Not every PS5 game supports ray tracing. The majority of titles don’t include the technology due to the heavy performance cost it inflicts. Those that do support the feature rarely run at 60fps as a result, meaning you can usually expect a drop in frame rate to 30fps if you want to enjoy the extra graphical fidelity ray tracing can provide.

There are exceptions, however, like Marvel’s Spider-Man: Remastered, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, all of which include an RT Performance mode that gives you the best of both worlds.

While we’ll likely see more games support ray tracing in the future, don’t expect it to become a permanent fixture in every release. Ray tracing can also appear in various forms, such as reflections, lighting, or shadows. It’s rare to see all three implemented at once.

Here’s every PS5 game with ray tracing in 2023:

• 💭 Bright Memory: Infinite

• 🪖 Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War

• 🪖 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

• 🚀 Chorus

• 👩‍🦰 Control: Ultimate Edition

• 🦾 Cyberpunk 2077

• 🇺🇸 Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

• 💀 Deathloop

• 🌕 Deliver Us The Moon

• 😈 Devil May Cry 5: Special Edition

• 🚘 Dirt 5

• 🔥 Doom Eternal

• 🧟‍♀️ Dying Light 2: Stay Human

• 💍 Elden Ring

• 🏎️ F1 21

• 🏎️ F1 22

• 🏎️ F1 23

• ✨ Forspoken

• 🪂 Fortnite

• 👻 Ghostrunner

• 🗼 Ghostwire: Tokyo

• 🏎️ Gran Turismo 7 (replays and Autoshow only)

• 🚨 Grand Theft Auto 5

• 👔 Hitman 3

• 🪄 Hogwarts Legacy

• 😱 Little Nightmares 2

• 🦈 Maneater

• 🌌 Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy

• 🕷️ Marvel’s Spider-Man: Remastered

• 🕸️ Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

• 🕷️ Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

• 🚇 Metro Exodus

• 🏀 NBA 2K21

• 👀 Observer: System Redux

• 🔧 Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

• 👮‍♀️ Resident Evil 2

• ⭐️ Resident Evil 3

• 🪓 Resident Evil 4

• 🚪 Resident Evil 7

• 👒 Resident Evil Village

• 🏍️ Ride 4

• ✨ Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

• 🔫 The Callisto Protocol

• ⚔️ The Witcher 3: Wildhunt

• 🤖 Quantum Error

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Watch Dogs Legion

Have we missed any PS5 games with ray tracing support on this list? Let us know in the comments below.

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What is ray tracing?

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Ray tracing is a technique that simulates how light behaves in the real world and calculates how light reflects, refracts, and interacts with objects and materials. This can have a dramatic impact on how a game looks as ray tracing comes in many forms like ray traced reflections, shadows, and lighting, which all serve to make games look more realistic.

Instead of developers having to spend hours “baking” lighting or reflections into a scene, ray tracing provides a far more dynamic and believable solution. However, the biggest problem with ray tracing, particularly on consoles, is that it’s computationally intensive. It’s why the majority of games that do support ray tracing on PS5 will tend to lower the game’s resolution and half the frame rate to make up for the performance hit.

It’s fair to say that ray tracing is the future, but one that requires powerful hardware to get the most out of it. With that in mind, don’t expect every PS5 game to support it, even if developers find a way to balance performance in the future.

Last updated: September 18, 2023