Ray tracing algorithms have emerged as a cornerstone for generating photorealistic images by simulating the complex interactions of light with virtual objects. These algorithms trace the paths of ...

Special hardware units handle ray traversal, freeing up the GPU shaders. While video game consoles have finally reached the age of ray tracing, performing those graphical calculations in real time can ...

I feel the ReSTIRrings of excitement.

Over the last few years, if you're a gamer or PC hardware enthusiast, you've probably heard the term "ray-tracing" bandied about quite a bit. Actually, you likely heard it before that, but with the ...

Real-time path tracing, the next stage of game rendering, is on the horizon, Nvidia says. But wait--didn't RTX just get here? So what is path tracing, how is it different from ray tracing, and why ...

NVIDIA has this week released OptiX 8, the latest version of its powerful framework aimed at optimizing ray tracing performance on its GPUs. This latest announcement marks a significant milestone in ...

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 ...

In the spring, Id Software and Bethesda announced that they would bring real-time ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS 2.0 to the Vulkan-powered Doom Eternal. When we reviewed thsi latest Doom title, we found ...

Cyberpunk 2077‘s long-awaited Overdrive feature is here. Announced alongside the Nvidia RTX 4090, the new ray tracing mode brings full path tracing to the world of Night City — and it looks incredible ...