Light looks more natural in games with ray tracing on, but you can expect performance to take a hit accordingly.

AMD has detailed a new ray tracing technique called tetrahedral cages, and according to a blog post on the company's GPUOpen developer site, it can cut BVH memory use by roughly 47x while speeding up ...

Sony claims that the new AMD GPU in the PS5 Pro has ray tracing capabilities that aren't found in AMD's current PC graphics cards, implying that the new console has at least some of the new RDNA 4 GPU ...

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 ...

Real-time ray tracing is finally starting to become commonplace in high-end PC games and even some PS5 and Xbox Series X games. Most of them come with a performance hit, letting the player choose ...

His love of PCs and their components was born out of trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of the family computer. Tinkering with his own build at age 10 turned into building PCs for ...

However, the real breakthrough lies in the technique's dramatically reduced memory footprint and acceleration structure update costs. Traditional ray tracing implementations require independently ...

Ray tracing has been the talk of the town since Nvidia's RTX 20-series GPUs were first announced back in 2018, and it remains one of the most used buzzwords in gaming today. If you like games or if ...

Half-Life 2, the acclaimed first-person shooter from Valve, is getting a remaster in the form of a mod that will add ray-traced graphics to the game, Nvidia announced Tuesday ahead of Gamescom 2023.

With Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 out the door, it's time we take a deep dive into ray tracing and DLSS performance once again. We've already taken a comprehensive look into how the card performs in ...

Ray tracing is one of the latest and most impressive graphical improvements video games have seen in the last few years. This system focuses on making light sources behave more realistically, which ...