DirectX Raytracing (DXR) is an add-on for DirectX 12 that was introduced by Microsoft at the same GDC conference in 2018. The API is what allows modern GPUs to power ray tracing via DirectX ...

Microsoft says DXR 1.2 offers up to a 2.3x performance boost in ray tracing games. DXR 1.2 includes shader execution reordering and opacity micromaps. These features orginally debuted with Nvidia ...

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 ...

Reddit user MrMPFR's analysis of AMD patents from the past year and a half reveals that the company is serious about treating ...

This would be a ridiculous idea if they hadn't made it real. Using raster hardware for ray-tracing isn't super new either; I remember that Pascal cards could run Quake II RTX, and I got around 40 ...

Harness the power of real-time ray tracing and explore your most complex ... Chaos Vantage requires a DXR-compatible GPU. Chaos Vantage works with .vrscene files exported from V-Ray Next or ...

The Switch 2 has ten times the graphics performance of the original Switch and uses dedicated ray-tracing (RT) Cores to enhance lighting and reflections in-game. It also uses Variable Refresh Rate ...

AMD plans some big performance upgrades with its next-gen UDNA 5 GPU, with PC gamers benefitting from AMD's close ...

While lacking native ray-tracing, a mod by Beyond Dreams adds ray-traced global illumination and ambient occlusion, enhancing realism and cinematic quality. The mod also adjusts color grading and ...

Earlier this year, a mod developer released Half-Life 1: Ray Traced. It added ray-tracing effects to Valve's first Half-Life game. Today, NVIDIA announced it is working with a number of mod teams ...

We have a handful of applications available to measure, to a certain extent, DirectX ray-tracing. Below, are the results of the Port Royale DX-Raytracing test. The results below are reference card ...

We have a handful of applications available to measure, to a certain extent, DirectX ray-tracing. Below, are the results of the Port Royale DX-Raytracing test. The results below are reference card ...