As graphics cards become more advanced, they become better able to render more detailed, realistic graphics. Even if the games you're playing on your PC aren't realistic by design, better graphics is ...

Full ray tracing or path tracing is only available in a handful of titles, but the results are as mind-blowingly impressive as they are taxing on a graphics card. Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake II, and ...

Always pushing the boundary of Nvidia’s tech, Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty and 2.0 update comes with a new RT tech known as Ray Reconstruction. Ray Reconstruction aims to improve performance in ...

PC Gamer recently noted that, among the 21 most popular PC games of 2025, only five make use of hardware-accelerated ray tracing. While the demanding technology ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Battlefield 6 has no plans to do anything with ray-tracing, despite it being prevalent in a lot of ...

Smartphone ray tracing is here. Well, sort of. We don’t have any actual mobile games with ray tracing support yet; we’re still waiting patiently. But we do have Android phones with hardware ray ...

To say that I loved NVIDIA's RTX 3060 Ti is an understatement. It was the ideal balance of price and performance — something that became even more true when GPU prices fell back down to Earth. With ...

The Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro lack hardware-enabled ray tracing. This feature allows for more realistic lighting and reflections, but few games support it. Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung, and Apple chips ...

In brief: Compared to traditional rendering methods, real-time path tracing is often less labor-intensive and can help produce more realistic lighting and shadows in 3D graphics. However, due to its ...