AMD has historically lagged behind Nvidia when it comes to ray tracing in games, but according to the latest leak, AMD ray tracing is about to completely change with the launch of its RDNA 4 ...
Even with upscaling and frame generation, ray tracing is still a compromise.
NVIDIA is helping to ramp up excitement for Gears of War: E-Day with a new mini-trailer showcasing the game’s modern effects. The 30-second trailer has already been viewed over fifty thousand times ...
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 ...
Announced today, the Immortalis-G715 is a GPU for mobile chipsets and the first from Arm to support hardware-based ray tracing. The Immortalis-G715 is Arm’s new flagship GPU, and as such it delivers ...
Microsoft has devised a system to massively reduce the amount of VRAM required by ray tracing in games, potentially meaning that we don't need to keep piling more and more memory onto future graphics ...
Games look better with each passing year. We expect that much, but now and then a breakthrough promises a huge leap forward. Programmable shaders. Hardware transformation and lighting. Low-level APIs.
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 ...
Ah, ray tracing. Although it’s been around for a long time in the film industry, it’s still a rather perplexing term, especially where video games are concerned. Essentially, it’s a technique that ...
Even with a small list of supporting games, ray tracing has become a focal feature of modern-day graphics cards. With a new, refreshed generation of Nvidia GPUs that support it, AMD’s lack of support ...
When he’s not writing about gaming, Sam is a freelance journalist and illustrator who spends too much time in cafes in his small Ontario hometown. 2020 promises to be a big year for ray tracing. The ...