Researchers in Portugal, the US, and the UK recently published a paper in which they attempted to leverage quantum computing algorithms to optimize ray-traced rendering workloads. The researchers' ...

Special hardware units handle ray traversal, freeing up the GPU shaders. While video game consoles have finally reached the age of ray tracing, performing those graphical calculations in real time can ...

As far as console and PC gaming goes, “ray tracing” has definitely been one of the biggest buzz-words in the gaming industry, and with good reason. The feature allows consoles and computers to process ...

Ray tracing makes light's behavior more realistic in supported games, but your PC has to use a lot of horsepower to make that ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Real-time path tracing, the next stage of game rendering, is on the ...

This article is part of the Electronics History series: The Graphics Chip Chronicles. In early 2018, NVIDIA showcased hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing using its DGX system and the DXR API.

I chanced upon the XDA Forums while looking for a way to update the original Motorola Defy to Android 4.0 ICS. Now I help people find answers to similar questions while covering the latest ...

Over the last few years, if you're a gamer or PC hardware enthusiast, you've probably heard the term "ray-tracing" bandied about quite a bit. Actually, you likely heard it before that, but with the ...

Although benchmarks are never perfect, they’re a useful tool for judging comparative performance. Basemark has just such a tool in its new In Vitro GPU test suite and kindly provided a copy to Android ...