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Nvidia shows new worlds with elaborate ray tracing

Nvidia shows new worlds with elaborate ray tracing

Minecraft RTX will only be available for Windows 10 and Xbox Series X due to DirectX ray tracing. As part of gamescom 2019, Nvidia announced »Minecraft with RTX« and showed the first impressive gameplay scenes. Since then, the implementation of real-time beam calculation based on Microsoft DirectX Raytracing (DXR) has been eagerly awaited. In order ...

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AMD shows impressive ray tracing demo on new GPU generation

AMD shows impressive ray tracing demo on new GPU generation

With the RDNA2 architecture, AMD introduces hardware accelerated ray tracing. (Image source: Youtube / AMD) AMD shows a technically impressive ray tracing demo (linked YouTube video above), which is already based on the new graphics card generation RDNA2 architecture (probably Big Navi, Navi 2.x) is calculated. The DirectX Raytracing (DXR) updated by Microsoft in revision ...

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Vulkan will allow CPUs to run their cores on Ray Tracing

Vulkan will allow CPUs to run their cores on Ray Tracing

Vulkan's new Ray Tracing extension goes by the name VK_KHR_ray_tracing and then enter one of the following functions: Performance of construction and management of accelerated structures. Support for sections and pipelines for ray traching shaders. Internal ray query for all shader classes. The features of this expansion are quite wide, but among them we have ...

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Why the console could make ray tracing socially acceptable

Why the console could make ray tracing socially acceptable

The Xbox Series X is said to effectively offer 25 TeraFLOPs computing power with ray tracing. (Image source: Microsoft) The final specifications of the Xbox Series X were released yesterday. A very fast graphics unit, especially for consoles, is said to provide 12 TeraFLOPs graphics power. But what about ray tracing performance? Digital Foundry received ...