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.

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 ...

In modern gaming, lighting is king and there’s never been a more wondrous thing than ray tracing. Ray tracing is an old, but now widely, available technology that realistically renders light and ...

We've had plenty of Minecraft shaders to give the sandbox the sheen it deserves, but ray tracing is on another level. Jacob explored some of the Nvidia Minecraft RTX builds earlier this year and said ...

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 ...

It's not an option if you absolutely require it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This month I have been: endlessly testing CPUs ...

Watch Dogs: Legion gives us a glimpse at next-gen on the Xbox Series X Watch Dogs: Legion gives us a glimpse at next-gen on the Xbox Series X is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Arm is announcing its new flagship Immortalis GPU today, its first to include ...

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 ...

Resident Evil Requiem is launching with high level performance, on PC. Nvidia just announced that Capcom’s upcoming horror ...

Nvidia invested heavily in real-time ray tracing capabilities in its GeForce RTX 20-series graphics cards—so much so that those highest-end GeForce GPUs swapped out the age-old “GTX” branding for the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Simply put, path tracing is a more advanced form of ray tracing which relies upon simulating the ...