Microsoft has shipped a set of Direct3D 12 upgrades that target one of the most persistent bottlenecks in PC gaming, the cost of real-time ray tracing. The updates, delivered through the DirectX 12 ...

Microsoft is making Windows 10 friendlier to gaming developers like Valve and Steam, after its Windows 8 "catastrophe" left the gaming world in the lurch. The Redmond company has announced a new ...

Microsoft announced DirectX raytracing a year ago, promising to bring hardware-accelerated raytraced graphics to PC gaming. In August, Nvidia announced its RTX 2080 and 2080Ti, a pair of new video ...

With claims of up to 2.3x performance gains in path-traced games, Microsoft's DXR 1.2 update has the potential to change the face of gaming in a major way. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

At the Game Developer Conference today both Microsoft and Nvidia are announcing a partnership which will mean we have real-time raytracing in PC games released this ...

It's been a few years since Microsoft introduced DirectX 12, and there's a new set of console introductions coming this fall, so the time is ripe for the unveiling of a new DirectX version. Microsoft ...

GDC 2018 - Microsoft announced their new adventures into DXR at GDC 2018, with DirectX Raytracing being the DX12-based standard for Raytracing with AMD and NVIDIA both throwing their support behind ...

Today, Microsoft announced DirectX 12 Ultimate, promising an alignment between PCs and the Xbox Series X. It promises features like DirectX Raytracing, Vraiable Rate Shading, and more. Today, ...

HEXUS wrote about the launch of Microsoft's new DirectX Raytracing API, an exciting new feature in DirectX 12, when it was announced on Monday at GDC 2018. At the time we heard about the lavish ...

In this article, we will see DirectX 12 Ultimate features and system requirements for DirectX 12 Ultimate. DirectX is a collection of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and is a suite of ...

In simple words, ray tracing means calculating how light would fall on objects, how it looks after the light is reflected from that object, and the effect of light that falls on some other object.

The launch of AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series graphics cards on November 18th will end NVIDIA’s monopoly on real-time raytracing. For the first time, gamers will have a choice of GPU vendors when buying a ...