ExtremeTech

Investigating ray tracing, the next big thing in gaming graphics

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 ...
GameSpot

Ray Tracing Hasn't Yet Lived Up To Its Potential

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 ...
PCGamesN

Step aside graphics cards, you can now run ray tracing on a CPU

Ray tracing may well be more commonplace in games these days but it's still seen as a hugely difficult graphics feature to process, requiring powerful graphics cards with dedicated ray tracing ...

From Pong to path tracing: The leaps that built modern game graphics

Graphics in games don’t improve in a steady, gentle slope. They jump. Someone ships a look that feels like it arrived from ...
PC Gamer

Ray tracing has taken its first steps at becoming the rendering norm for triple-A games but that just makes upscaling and frame generation a Hobson's choice

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 ...
HotHardware

Mesa's Vulkan Driver Allows CPU Ray Tracing In Quake RTX But Don't Toss That GPU

Back in the day, before the ubiquity of discrete graphics cards with powerful programmable engines, 3D games used what we now term "software rendering." This means that the graphics renderer ran ...
PC Gamer

There's a new ray tracing benchmark in town and it paints an all-too-familiar picture of today's GPUs

No prizes for guessing which vendor handles ray tracing the best. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I suspect the reason why ...
TechSpot

AMD patents hint at significant ray tracing improvements in future GPU architectures

In context: Previous generations of AMD graphics cards have lagged behind Nvidia's in ray tracing performance, but Team Red's most recent Radeon RX 9000 GPUs have made significant strides in closing ...
ExtremeTech

Microsoft Patent Aims to Reduce Memory Usage in Ray Tracing

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The Next Web

Ray Tracing (Graphics)

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 ...
SiliconANGLE

Computational design software startup nTop integrates with Nvidia’s ray-tracing and graphics platforms

Computational design software startup nTopology Inc. said today it has secured a significant investment of an undisclosed amount from NVentures, the venture capital arm of Nvidia Corp. The funding ...