The main benefit of raytracing is primarily for the CG artist pipeline/workflow. Complex, realistic lighting effects just drop out of the integrator, and changi

The main benefit of raytracing is primarily for the CG artist pipeline/workflow. Complex, realistic lighting effects just drop out of the integrator, and changing scene lighting is much more akin to a lighting director on a movie set. Whereas with rasterization an 3D artist has to know the correct hack (i.e. "smart technique") to use in each situation--along with the failure modes for that hack.