Gaming graphics have been on a constant improvement trajectory since the early days, with new technologies leveling up the experience. Ray tracing has been one such focus that brings gorgeous lighting ...

TL;DR: Real-time ray tracing is now standard in AAA games, with Path Tracing emerging as the next visual breakthrough, enabled by technologies like DLSS, Neural Rendering, and DirectX Raytracing 1.2.

Microsoft has released Agility SDK 1.616, which includes support for Opacity Micromaps (OMM), a new feature in DirectX Raytracing that boosts performance. Back in March at the Game Developers ...

Shader Model 6.10 wants to make neural rendering a core DirectX feature, not just an NVIDIA trick, with a new unified matrix math API for all major GPUs.

When it comes to games on PCs, there's one thing that thousands of them have in common: the graphics API used to tell the GPU what to do. Specifically, I'm talking about Microsoft's Direct3D and I'm ...

Ray tracing has become a new trend in PC gaming and other graphics-related tasks. Its demand for PCs is quite high, even for those with high-end graphics cards. For this reason, Microsoft has promised ...

Last week, Mojang announced that the Minecraft Super Duper Graphics Pack (SDGP) that Microsoft had promised back in 2017 was canceled, permanently. No additional information was offered on why the ...

Ray tracing and path tracing are two major technologies shaping modern gaming graphics and graphics rendering in 2026. In this graphics comparison, both techniques improve lighting, reflections, and ...

Here’s what the 3DMark DirectX Raytracing Feature Test looks like running on a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

Nvidia's new WHQL 425.31 driver enables ray tracing on GTX cards -- and some of the upper-end GPUs can even handle it, in specific cases. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in ...