It may have taken the best part of a year, but the dark, demonic hellscape of Diablo 4 now has realistic shadows and reflections, thanks to some close work with Nvidia. Yes, Diablo 4 ray tracing is ...

NVIDIA is helping to ramp up excitement for Gears of War: E-Day with a new mini-trailer showcasing the game’s modern effects.

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 ...

With the arrival in April of the first official details about Sony’s next-generation PlayStation, and Microsoft’s unveiling of Project Scarlett at its E3 2019 press briefing on Sunday, the future of ...

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 upscaling and frame generation, ray tracing is still a compromise.

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.

Nvidia recently announced new high-end graphics cards with an RTX designation attached to the model numbers—that RTX indicates the card’s enhanced ray tracing abilities, which could bring a whole new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...