Ray tracing has been used in movie CGI for years, with it often taking hours or even days to render individual frames. However, as computing power has improved, and following the launch of Nvidia ...

Here's everything you need to know from a gaming perspective, including what ray tracing is, how it works, pros and cons, and its future in tech. Focus Reset. Skip to content. IGN Plus.

Technically speaking, the concept of ray tracing has existed for as long as digital 3D art has. Of course, rendering realistic light and shadow in a static image is a completely different matter ...

Real time ray tracing has been slow to arrive, at least in the way that seemed promised back in 2018. For many moons, it's been, at best, an optional extra.

Path tracing differs from ray tracing in that instead of following lots of rays, throughout an entire scene, the algorithm only traces the most likely path for the light.

Most decent graphics cards support ray tracing, and it makes no difference if you use an Nvidia RTX card or an AMD Radeon one. Ray tracing is also supported on the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5.

Ray tracing has been one of the biggest buzzwords for desktop GPUs since 2018, which is when Nvidia brought it to gamers with its Turing GPUs. We're on the verge of the launch of the fourth ...

Most PC gamers know that ray tracing is a very performance-intensive feature, and depending on the improvement to visual quality, it may or may not be worth using. In an extensive Hardware Unboxed ...

Ray tracing was (arguably) the biggest USP for last year's PS5 Pro, backed by PSSR AI-upscaling tech, to bring what consoles can do closer to a lower mid-range PC.