For anyone wondering what Cyberpunk 2077’s ‘Overdrive’ ray tracing is, don’t worry. You’ve come to the right place. ‘Path tracing’ is the other name for full ray tracing. Full ray tracing differs from ...

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 ...

Editor's take: While there have been plenty of "next-gen upgrades" to existing games, very few have provided ray tracing, with most just focusing on higher-resolution assets. So it's nice to see that ...

Microsoft has shipped a set of Direct3D 12 upgrades that target one of the most persistent bottlenecks in PC gaming, the cost ...

Real-time ray tracing arrived on consumer GPUs as an optional add-on that you could switch on if your graphics card had the necessary hardware. While seemingly gimmicky at first, the technology ...

The recently released Shader Model 6.9 brings Microsoft's official take on Shader Execution Reordering (SER) out of preview. Nvidia and a few game developers have already ...

The choice between Path tracing and Ray tracing has become a necessary discussion about graphics among gaming enthusiasts. Both offer compelling advancements in visual fidelity. However, their ...

From the moment 4-year-old Cameron first stepped out into Glimmer in Spyro 2, he knew video games were going to play a central role in the rest of his life. Though he never planned to make it the ...

I wrote an article yesterday showing off Digital Foundry’s test of Cyberpunk 2077’s new Overdrive ray tracing update from NVIDIA, which is live as of right now, a nearly 20 GB update to download for ...

Last year, Qualcomm made a noteworthy announcement by integrating hardware ray tracing support into its latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor. This move was significant as it enabled flagship phone ...

Full ray tracing or path tracing is only available in a handful of titles, but the results are as mind-blowingly impressive as they are taxing on a graphics card. Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake II, and ...

The gaming industry has been a forefront for technology since its early days, pushing the expectations of things like handheld computing, online communication, and of course, graphics. For the last ...