Ray tracing and path tracing sound similar -- and technically, they are. Both methods simulate how light travels in a 3D environment, but the way they work and the results they produce are completely ...

Ray tracing and path tracing are two of the most exciting and demanding dynamic lighting techniques available to gamers and game developers in 2024. They both represent a massive leap in realism over ...

The choice between Path tracing and Ray tracing has become a necessary discussion about graphics among gaming enthusiasts. Both offer compelling advancements in visual fidelity. However, their ...

Ray-Reconstruction is a new technology that debuted alongside DLSS 3.5 and only currently works with Path Tracing (RT Overdrive) meaning that the performance on older 30 series and 20 series cards is ...

When NVIDIA lifted the lid on its new flagship GeForce RTX 4090 and GeForce RTX 4080 GPUs last year, it presented a look at a new ray-tracing mode coming to Cyberpunk 2077 called RT: Overdrive. The RT ...

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 ...