Win 10 edition runs poorly unless raytracing is enabled

For some reason I run into hitches and the performance quality of minecraft for windows is considerably less than java edition - a friend of mine has reported the same if they turn raytracing off (I do not have an rtx card). The game runs better with raytracing enabled. I've had to reduce draw distance to 4 chunks, which has helped a little bit, but still occasionally get stuck waiting for the game to resolve frequent stutters.