Testing Breaking Limit, Basemark’s new ray-tracing benchmark

We tested the new Breaking Limit Ultra benchmark with eight graphics cards over multiple segments.

July 12, 2024

Robert Dow

Earlier this month, Basemark released two versions of Breaking Limit, a ray-traced-focused benchmark. Basemark’s Breaking Limit cross-platform benchmark is intended to test ray-tracing capabilities on a variety of platforms, including desktops, laptops, and smartphones. The benchmark includes two workloads: a regular workload for lower-end devices and a dedicated workload for high-end GPUs. Breaking Limit Ultra is a demanding task designed for desktop PCs with high-end discrete GPUs. Breaking Limit Ultra employs raytraced reflections and raytraced shadows. In addition to those, it uses raytraced global illumination. Raytraced reflections use a greater resolution than the cross-platform workload, and more lights are raytraced

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