If you thought real-time ray-tracing effects in games like shadows or reflections were taxing on GPU hardware, you probably haven't seen path-tracing in action. Path tracing essentially makes all ...

A ray tracing technique known as path tracing looks set to make it to mainstream PC gaming, thanks to an SDK release by NVIDIA today. Implementing real-time path tracing is claimed by the graphics ...

OTOY has created, Brigade™, a real-time rendering engine for video games and for its Star Trek videos and work for the Roddenberry Archive. They use path tracing to render images as opposed to ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA's DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction, introduced in 2023, significantly enhances PC game visuals by improving ray-traced effects with AI-powered denoising. This technology sharpens reflections ...

Let's talk about path tracing, hardware-heads. While the difference between ray-tracing and path-tracing has been debated, the industry has largely settled on using ray-tracing as an umbrella term ...

The innovation of path tracing, as utilized in "Cyberpunk 2077," can potentially revolutionize the entire gaming industry. Thanks to the introduction of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX GPUs with RT Cores and ...

Ray tracing is yesterday’s news. All the cool kids or at least all the kids who can build a desktop PC that costs as much as a used economy sedan are talking about path tracing now. This more advanced ...

Plenty of ink has been spilled about Nvidia's DLSS, but one feature of the performance-enhancing suite doesn't get enough love: Ray Reconstruction. That's because it's only in a small number of games, ...

Nvidia overwhelmingly dominates the list of the best graphics cards, and that largely comes down to its feature set that’s been enabled through DLSS. AMD isn’t sitting idly by, however. The company is ...

The choice between Path tracing and Ray tracing has become a necessary discussion about graphics among gaming enthusiasts. Both offer compelling advancements in visual fidelity. However, their ...

Intel is making a big push into the future of graphics. The company is introducing seven new research papers to Siggraph 2023, an annual graphics conference, one of which tries to address VRAM ...

Cool stuff: After Nvidia added ray tracing to Quake II, many wondered why no one brought the feature to its predecessor. A prolific modder has now released a conversion to fill that gap, while asking ...