There was a long period of time where the phrase 'ray tracing' was almost inescapable and slapped onto all the prettiest-looking games. However, as the memory crisis continues to devastate hardware ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. id Software's Doom (1993) helped birth the first-person shooter, and the original Quake (1996) introduced fast-paced movement and action in a fully 3D ...

Light looks more natural in games with ray tracing on, but you can expect performance to take a hit accordingly.

In the spring, Id Software and Bethesda announced that they would bring real-time ray tracing and NVIDIA DLSS 2.0 to the Vulkan-powered Doom Eternal. When we reviewed thsi latest Doom title, we found ...

Intel is the newest player in the GPU market now that the company has finally launched its Arc Alchemist GPUs. Since these are first-generation products from a company that has almost no experience in ...

Computational design software startup nTopology Inc. said today it has secured a significant investment of an undisclosed amount from NVentures, the venture capital arm of Nvidia Corp. The funding ...

In the weeks since Valve’s Steam Deck release, fans and critics alike have been poring through the device’s possibilities, stymied in part by near-daily software and OS updates. I previously posited ...

The free KeyShot, a plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max, loads models into KeyShot ray-tracing software with all parts, groups, and layers intact. Importing a model into KeyShot only takes one click. The ...

Ray tracing has been the talk of the town since Nvidia's RTX 20-series GPUs were first announced back in 2018, and it remains one of the most used buzzwords in gaming today. If you like games or if ...

Ray tracing is one of the latest and most impressive graphical improvements video games have seen in the last few years. This system focuses on making light sources behave more realistically, which ...

Modder ‘sultim-t’, the man behind the Path Tracing mods for Doom and Serious Sam TFE has released Quake Ray Traced. As the title implies, Quake Ray Traced offers full path tracing effects to id ...

Whether you belong to Team Nvidia or team AMD, Xbox or PlayStation, or even Apple Mac vs PC, you’ve probably heard of ray-tracing. It's the holy grail for computer graphics. It works by simulating ...