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

Portal RTX was the unofficial signal of second-gen RTX tech. It’s the answer to how far RTX has come since Nvidia introduced Quake II RTX in 2019. Both are classic games, but while Quake II RTX felt ...

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 ...

It's not an option if you absolutely require it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This month I have been: endlessly testing CPUs ...

Unless you're a physicist, you probably don't pay too much mind to the function of light in your daily life. Light is light, right? When there is light, we see, and when there isn't, we don't. But ...

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 ...

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.

Nvidia just announced DLSS 3.5, a brand new version of its GPU tool that’ll shake up ray tracing in PC games. While DLSS 3 currently helps boost gaming PC performance in terms of frame rate, the next ...

Ray tracing and path tracing sound similar — and technically, they are. Both methods simulate how light travels in a 3D environment, but the way they work and the results they produce are completely ...

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