TL;DR: UL Solutions has announced Solar Bay Extreme as a free update for 3DMark, a much more demanding ray tracing benchmark featuring advanced ray-traced reflections with up to a 5x higher workload ...

Microsoft has shipped a set of Direct3D 12 upgrades that target one of the most persistent bottlenecks in PC gaming, the cost of real-time ray tracing. The updates, delivered through the DirectX 12 ...

Here is ray tracing explained in simple terms, how ray tracing performance impacts FPS, and when ray tracing gaming visuals are truly worth the trade-off. Pixabay, Timrael Ray tracing has gone from a ...

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 ...

Nvidia has just announced the Diablo 4 ray tracing release date, which will bring you shiny armor and realistic water reflections, among other benefits, as long as your GPU has enough power to cope ...

Digital Foundry praises Crimson Desert for strong native 4K performance with ray tracing and surprisingly reasonable PC requirements.

In this Crimson Desert video showcasing Pearl Abyss' in-house BlackSpace Engine, which is the Engine used in the upcoming open-world action-adventure game, take a look at the Ray Tracing feature. The ...

With the RPCS3 emulator, we’ve recently started to see an exciting new trend for pushing PS3 games even further than was originally intended. This is, of course, in no small thanks to the additional ...

The Saturn was Sega's fifth generation fully-3D console, launched in 1994 to compete with the PlayStation 1 and Nintendo 64—and all these years later, homebrew developer XL2 has managed to create a ...

Today we are back with another extensive game analysis - this time looking at Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. It uses the Dawn engine (from the Deus Ex series) and offers ray tracing as well as DLSS ...

Apple introduced the iPhone 16 on September 9, promising a souped-up five-core GPU that can support hardware-accelerated ray tracing and play AAA games previously only available on the iPhone 15 Pro.