Unless you're a physicist, you probably don't pay too much mind to the function of light in your daily life. Light is light, right? When there is light, we see, and when there isn't, we don't. But ...

Ray tracing is one of the latest and most impressive graphical improvements video games have seen in the last few years. This system focuses on making light sources behave more realistically, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

Whether you belong to Team Nvidia or team AMD, Xbox or PlayStation, or even Apple Mac vs PC, you’ve probably heard of ray-tracing. It's the holy grail for computer graphics. It works by simulating ...

I wrote an article yesterday showing off Digital Foundry’s test of Cyberpunk 2077’s new Overdrive ray tracing update from NVIDIA, which is live as of right now, a nearly 20 GB update to download for ...

Graphics Cards Best graphics cards in 2025: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards Graphics Cards I've tested the simple config file ...

Half-Life ray tracing may have to wait a little longer, as a stunning mod for the Valve FPS is being delayed, but by way of compensation, Quake, the beloved shooter from Bethesda and id Software, has ...

First it came to Portal, now it's coming to the Source engine's other big classic: Half-Life 2 is getting a ray-tracing remaster thanks to the efforts of a community modding superteam with support ...