With its desktop launches complete, NVIDIA is about to blitz the mobile market with an array of Blackwell based GPUs, ...

Although ray tracing can add visual realism to top-tier games, it can also maul the performance of otherwise top-tier PCs. It ...

With promises of massive performance gains and "next-generation realism," DXR 1.2 could be one of the biggest leaps forward ...

DOOM Eternal had a very different combat dance in play, one that had the Slayer use a shoulder-mounted flamethrower to melt enemy armor into armor pick-ups, so DOOM: The Dark Ages feels both fresh and ...

Microsoft has unveiled DirectX Raytracing 1.2 (DXR 1.2) at GDC 2025, introducing two major innovations designed to address ...

a high-end feature for games with the fanciest ray tracing, which is also known as path tracing. Path tracing makes even the RTX 5090 sweat from all the calculations it has to do to accurately ...

DXR 1.2 will be released for developers, standardizing new functions for more speed at two stages in the graphics pipeline.

Minecraft is finally getting an official graphics upgrade. It looks great, but perhaps not in the way you expect.

Put it all together (along with those performance bumps thanks to reducing texture sizes by 10% and RTX Remix Runtime giving an up to 15% uplift in FPS), and Orbifold Studios has done an incredible ...

but this technology would only work when used with Nvidia's RTX 20 series GPUs at the time. Since then, almost every modern graphics card from AMD, Nvidia, or Intel supports ray tracing.

The end result, as Vibrant Visuals producer Dejan Dimic explained it, is a Minecraft that "will be able to reach a lot of ...