New GPU From AMD With DirectX 12 Ultimate Support and Raytracing
AMD has announced that its new GPU will be fully compatible with DirectX 12 Ultimate libraries. This also means that RDNA 2 architecture will support raytracing.
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Konrad Serafinski
March 21, 2020
All Nvidia Ampere GPUs Will Support Ray Tracing
There have been further leaks concerning new Nvidia graphics cards, based on the Ampere architecture. According to these reports, all GPUs in the series are expected to offer hardware ray tracing acceleration. Support for this technology will also be significantly improved over the Turing line.
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Bart Swiatek
March 12, 2020
4A Games About Ray Tracing on PS5 and Xbox Series X
4A Games is fully committed to developing ray tracing. With the launch of next-gen consoles, the company plans to devote even more attention to this technology.
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Konrad Serafinski
February 23, 2020
Intel Xe DG1 GPU Can be 40% Faster Than Mobile AMD Vega
First benchmarks of the Intel Xe line GPUs have appeared on the web. The results of some tests suggest that dedicated Intel GPU, the DG1, may be up to 40% faster than AMD's mobile solutions. In other tests, Intel's graphics card is performing noticeably worse than competitive solutions.
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Bart Swiatek
February 4, 2020
Doom Eternal Unlikely to Launch With Ray Tracing Support
Marty Stratton, executive producer of Doom Eternal, revealed in an interview for Digital Foundry that id Software is just beginning work on the implementation of ray tracing in the game. The developer also pointed out that his team has some interesting ideas for using this technology.
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Bart Swiatek
January 27, 2020
Full Version of The Heretic Shows Graphic Capabilities of Unity
Unity has published a full version of a tech demo called The Heretic. Almost 8-minute material presents the capabilities of the 2019.3 version of the engine.
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Konrad Serafinski
January 23, 2020
AMD is Working on Fast Navi GPU With Ray-tracing
The head of AMD, Dr. Lisa Su, gave an interview to the journalists of AnandTech. During the conversation, a thread of AMD's ray-tracing GPU appeared. The company is working on a new, powerful graphics card supporting this technology, which should appear on the market later this year.
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Bart Swiatek
January 8, 2020
NVIDIA: „Two-thirds of GPU Are Now With Ray-tracing”
Colette Kress, CFO of Nvidia, stated at the Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference 2019 that two-thirds of the GPUs currently sold by Nvidia support ray-tracing technology.
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Bart Swiatek
December 5, 2019
AMD Will Announce a Successor to Navi GPU at CES 2020?
The first unconfirmed information about new Navi GPUs being created by AMD has appeared in the web. The chipsets are to have, among others, a very fast HBM2E memory and hardware ray-tracing support.
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November 20, 2019
Nvidia Believes it Made Ray-tracing in PS5 and Xbox Scarlett Possible
Jen-Hsun „Jensen” Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said in a press interview that the handling of ray-tracing in next-generation consoles is indirectly due to his company.
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Bart Swiatek
November 18, 2019
Check Whether Your PC Can Handle Ray-Tracing With This Crytek Benchmark
Crytek has released Neon Noir, a free benchmark for ray-tracing testing. Application based on the demo from GDC 2019 enables us to check this technology on popular graphics cards.
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Jacob Blazewicz
November 13, 2019
Red Dead Redemption 2 PC Without RTX Support
Yesterday, new 4K screens from the PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2 were presented. The players were interested in the „RTX” logo, which could indicate that the title will support ray-tracing. However, Nvidia denied it.
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Agnes Adamus
November 1, 2019
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Gets Visual Mod With Ray-tracing
A refreshed version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is being made. A group known ad Remaster Studio has published a video presenting a mod that improves the visual aspects of the title. Among the improvements that it is supposed to introduce we will find, among others, a new weather system and support for ray-tracing.
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Agnes Adamus
November 1, 2019
CoD: Modern Warfare Visual Comparison: PS4, Xbox One, Ray-tracing PC
Candyland released a video comparing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on Xbox One X, PlayStation 4 Pro and PC on ultra settings with ray-tracing.
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Adrian Werner
October 31, 2019
Minecraft - Ray-tracing in 60 FPS on Cheapest RTX Card
Nvidia announced that Minecraft with ray-tracing is expected to run in 60 frames per second at 1080p resolution on a GeForce 2060 RTX.
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Adrian Werner
October 23, 2019
Minecraft RTX - Ray-tracing Gameplay
During PAX Aus 2019 a Minecraft gameplay with official ray-tracing support was presented. After the changes the title looks very good.
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Bart Swiatek
October 16, 2019
Ray-tracing Coming to World of Tanks
Ray-tracing is coming to WoT. Wargaming Studio in collaboration with Intel has developed a solution that will enable us to enjoy the technology on every DirectX 11 compatible PC, including PCs with graphics cards that do not support ray-tracing.
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Krzysztof Kaluzinski
October 15, 2019
Nvidia Creates Team That Will Help Implement Ray-tracing in New Games
Nvidia has created a studio that in the future will be responsible for implementing ray-tracing effects in the new classic video game. We don't know the details yet, but it could be Unreal or Doom 3.
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Konrad Serafinski
October 13, 2019
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - Hardware Requirements for Ray-tracing
Infinity Ward provided additional hardware requirements for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Thanks to that we learned what equipment will be needed to play with ray-tracing. The devs also explained that the 175GB of required disk space previously provided includes all the additional content that will be released after the launch.
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Adrian Werner
October 11, 2019
Gotta be Fast - First Information About New Radeons
The first details about the new Radeon GPU from AMD, have appeared in the web. The chipsets will have, among others, a very fast HBM2E memory and hardware ray tracing support.
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Bart Swiatek
September 16, 2019