Founded by three engineers from Apple, Caustic Graphics promises to speed up the realistic renderings through a combination of chips and software. Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ray tracing, a next-generation lighting technology that creates hyper-realistic visuals, has been the hot topic in gaming graphics for a while. The most interesting aspect is that real-time ray ...

Ray tracing technology is changing how modern games render light by simulating how rays travel, bounce, and interact with objects in a virtual environment. This allows graphics rendering to produce ...

Today, Nvidia showed us the true promise and vision of ray tracing—making virtual environments look as real as possible based on how light is cast and reflected off surfaces and objects. It’s not a ...

Nvidia's big advantage will soon disappear. AMD’s next-generation graphics cards could bring ray tracing capabilities to Mac. The company’s new Navi 2X architecture, coming later this year, will be ...

Microsoft's Mojang and Nvidia are adding a rendering technique called ray tracing to "Minecraft." Ray tracing looks at the way rays of light bounce off of virtual objects to simulate real-world ...

Microsoft has recently shared a lot of details about the Xbox Series X. This includes a fresh look at how the console’s use of hardware accelerated DirectX ray tracing makes next-gen games look even ...

If you play video games or are new to games development and would like to learn more about the latest technologies helping bring extra immersion in realism to game graphics. This quick guide will ...

Last fall, we examined real-time ray tracing performance in 3D modeling programs and discussed some of the promises and challenges surrounding the technology. At the time, there weren't any hardware ...

AMD revealed the Radeon RX 5600 XT during its CES 2020 keynote on Monday, aiming its new “Navi” RDNA architecture at PC gaming’s 1080p sweet spot after tackling 1440p with the superb Radeon RX 5700 ...