It was in 2018 when Nvidia revealed its real-time ray tracing technology for games, titled Nvidia RTX. At the time, many people thought it to be the next best thing for video games, while others felt ...

Forward-looking: Recent big game releases appear to confirm that ray tracing and path tracing are the future of graphics rendering. However, these techniques remain prohibitively computationally ...

Most PC gamers know that ray tracing is a very performance-intensive feature, and depending on the improvement to visual quality, it may or may not be worth using. In an extensive Hardware Unboxed ...

Ray tracing is often hailed as the apex of gaming graphics, cited as the reason behind peak immersion and realism. Nvidia brought real-time ray tracing to consumer GPUs in 2018 and pushed the ...

Mobile games are now pushing the boundaries of visual fidelity thanks to great improvements in hardware performance. With the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, Ray Tracing support was a major part of the ...

Dragon Age: The Veilguard will feature selective ray tracing, a feature that we've not seen openly listed on in-game settings before. It could be huge for gamers with lower-end GPUs looking to still ...

WWDC 2025 revealed some upgraded tools for game developers that'll make games render at higher resolutions, faster frame rates, and improved ray tracing with fewer resources. Apple didn't make that't ...

Ray tracing and path tracing are two of the most exciting and demanding dynamic lighting techniques available to gamers and game developers in 2024. They both represent a massive leap in realism over ...

The penchant for video games to develop better graphical capabilities has been ingrained into development DNA since the first playable games were released decades ago. Fast forward to current times ...

As graphics cards become more advanced, they become better able to render more detailed, realistic graphics. Even if the games you're playing on your PC aren't realistic by design, better graphics is ...

Processors Intel says its graphics drivers are now 'light years ahead of where we were a few years ago', and they'll need to be if it's going to tempt gamers towards its new iGPUs Graphics Cards 'It ...