A ray tracing technique known as path tracing looks set to make it to mainstream PC gaming, thanks to an SDK release by NVIDIA today. Implementing real-time path tracing is claimed by the graphics ...

Let's talk about path tracing, hardware-heads. While the difference between ray-tracing and path-tracing has been debated, the industry has largely settled on using ray-tracing as an umbrella term ...

Bolt Graphics' Zeus GPUs have slowly but surely been generating hype ever since the startup first announced its RISC-V GPUs in March. With its 2026 hardware launch steadily approaching, Bolt made a ...

In brief: Compared to traditional rendering methods, real-time path tracing is often less labor-intensive and can help produce more realistic lighting and shadows in 3D graphics. However, due to its ...

Big quote: At CES 2026, California-based GPU startup Bolt Graphics showcased its Zeus GPU platform, targeting gaming, CAD workloads, and HPC simulations. Originally announced a year ago, Zeus is built ...

ReSpec is a bit different this week. I’ve spent the week in sunny San Francisco at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), running from meeting to meeting and trying to find a moment of time to write a ...

Nvidia overwhelmingly dominates the list of the best graphics cards, and that largely comes down to its feature set that’s been enabled through DLSS. AMD isn’t sitting idly by, however. The company is ...

Graphics in games don’t improve in a steady, gentle slope. They jump. Someone ships a look that feels like it arrived from five years ahead, and then everyone else has to scramble to match it, ...

If you thought Minecraft looked good with ray tracing-style effects through path tracing, have a look at what the new ReShade mod for Crysis does when it adds in some beautiful ray-traced Global ...

TL;DR: AMD and Sony's Project Amethyst partnership advances PlayStation hardware with next-gen RDNA 5 architecture, integrating neural rendering, AI, and ray-tracing technologies. This collaboration ...