Mundfish’s Atomic Heart is releasing today, but without a feature that the developer and Nvidia have been pushing for years: ray tracing. What was seemingly once the next flagship gaming for Nvidia RTX has delayed the feature on PC at the last minute, according to reviewers. “I noticed the lack of ray tracing options in the…
As promised, Intel has released a new video (opens in new tab) highlighting the ray tracing technology behind its Arc Alchemist graphics cards. While the Arc A770 has yet to prove itself, the looming graphics card aims to fight for a spot on the list of best graphics cards. We’ve already seen how the Arc…
South Korean tech treasure hunter Coelacanth’s Dream (opens in new tab) has dug up some interesting information about the integrated GPU that comes with Intel’s Meteor Lake processors. From sightings of new code patches for the Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC), the fishy tech poster has revealed that Meteor Lake iGPUs could have ray tracing support…
Arm has announced a new GPU family, targeting ultimate gaming experiences on next-gen flagship smartphones. The first of its new ‘beyond-Mali’ breed is the Immortalis-G715, and it comes with a sizable and realistically lit feather in its cap. It’s “the first Arm GPU to offer hardware-based ray tracing support on mobile.” Immortalis won’t replace Mali…
Throughout several decades of video game development, there are tens of titles that we call legendary, but perhaps just about a dozen games are trend-setting. Wolfenstein 3D was undoubtedly one of those titles that created a new genre of games — first-person shooter. Then Wolfenstein got a remake in the form of Return to the…
An international team of researchers across the UK, the US and Portugal think they’ve found an answer to ray tracing’s steep performance requirements. And according to them, the answer lies in a hybrid of classical ray tracing algorithms with quantum computing. According to the research paper (currently in preprint), ray tracing workloads aided by quantum…
Nvidia does not have plans to bring its ray tracing-enabled GPU architectures to smartphones or other ultra-mobile devices right now, CEO Jensen Huang told journalists at a Computex meeting this week. The statements come just days after AMD confirmed that upcoming Samsung smartphones using AMD RDNA2 GPU architecture will support ray tracing. According to Huang,…
Crytek has just released a update for Crysis Remastered, version 2.1.2, with updates to the game’s ray tracing graphics. The new update features an experimental Boost mode that pushes all the game’s ray tracing reflections to even greater levels. Boost mode enters Crysis Remastered as a purely experimental feature, but when enabled, it adds ray-traced…
The best graphics cards should let you play your favorite games with stunning visual effects, including life-like reflections and shadows. Sure, ray tracing may not radically improve the look of some games, but you should be the one to decide whether or not to enable it. Getting locked out just because it doesn’t run well…
