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 ...

Ray tracing, a sophisticated technique for drawing realistic graphics in video games, has gone mainstream. Today it's even available on entry-level graphics hardware. Computers are my lifelong ...

Noticed your eyes widening a lot more when you play games lately? If so, that may be because many games now support ray tracing, a technology that's become possible in real-time since only 2018, ...

Most PC gamers know that ray tracing is a very performance-intensive feature, and depending on the improvement to visual quality, it may or may not be worth using. In an extensive Hardware Unboxed ...

If you're eyeing up a new graphics card for your build, then you've probably wondered what ray tracing is. It's been around seven years since the real-time lightning rendering technique first debuted ...

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 ...