Ray Traced reflection brightness compared to Path Tracing - Rendering - Epic Developer Community Forums

Hello, I have noticed that the raytraced reflections are darker than the results produced by the Unreal path tracer. I have already increased the number of bounces and samples and everything can be seen in the reflections, but they just appear darker. Is that a limitation, or am I missing something? And if so, is there a link to some documentation about this? I can’t seem to find any information on this. I am using the movie render queue with the cvars shown in the image. Engine Version is v

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