Real-time ray tracing arrived on consumer GPUs as an optional add-on that you could switch on if your graphics card had the ...

Microsoft has devised a system to massively reduce the amount of VRAM required by ray tracing in games, potentially meaning that we don't need to keep piling more and more memory onto future graphics ...

Caustic Graphics is launching an effort today to woo software developers to its new ray tracing graphics chip debuting in 2010. A rare startup in the mature graphics chip industry, the San Francisco ...

Last fall, we examined real-time ray tracing performance in 3D modeling programs and discussed some of the promises and challenges surrounding the technology. At the time, there weren't any hardware ...

Intel has just announced an interesting update to its upcoming Meteor Lake chips: The integrated graphics are about to receive an unprecedented boost, allowing them to rival low-end, discrete GPUs.

The gaming industry has been a forefront for technology since its early days, pushing the expectations of things like handheld computing, online communication, and of course, graphics. For the last ...

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The choice between Path tracing and Ray tracing has become a necessary discussion about graphics among gaming enthusiasts. Both offer compelling advancements in visual fidelity. However, their ...

This week, Cyberpunk 2077's long-awaited 1.2 update went live, enabling the use of ray tracing with an amd rx 6000-series graphics card... we benchmark every rdna 2-based gpu to find out how just how ...

After decades of work, is ray tracing nearly ready for prime time? We examine the technology's industrial and consumer gaming applications. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

In computer graphics, ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of its encounters with virtual objects ...