Founded by three engineers from Apple, Caustic Graphics promises to speed up the realistic renderings through a combination of chips and software. Jon Skillings is an editorial director at CNET, where ...

Last fall, we examined real-time ray tracing performance in 3D modeling programs and discussed some of the promises and challenges surrounding the technology. At the time, there weren't any hardware ...

In computer graphics, ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of its encounters with virtual objects ...

The big picture: AMD has trailed Nvidia in ray tracing performance across multiple GPU generations for several years. However, a reliable leaker now suggests that Team Red is poised to reassess its ...

There has been a lot of rumor and information surrounding AMD's upcoming RDNA 4 generation of Radeon RX 8000 Series graphics cards. On track for launch later this year (at the earliest), we know that ...

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 ...

The gaming industry has been a forefront for technology since its early days, pushing the expectations of things like handheld computing, online communication, and of course, graphics. For the last ...

After decades of work, is ray tracing nearly ready for prime time? We examine the technology's industrial and consumer gaming applications. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

Something to look forward to: One of the pillars of Arm's latest roadmap is a trio of new mobile graphics processors offering a range of new features and performance improvements. Among them is ray ...

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 ...