Sneak peek: RTX ray tracing in Substance 3D Modeler

Check out the upcoming features in Adobe's digital sculpting software, like real-time ray traced lighting.

Friday, February 3rd, 2023

Check out Nvidia's RTXDI and RTXGI GPU ray tracing demos

Download the free Attic demo to try RTX global illumination, and see a video of direct lighting tech RTXDI.

Friday, April 16th, 2021

Vulkan now does ray tracing

The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.

Thursday, March 19th, 2020

Real-time ray tracing, Havok physics due in Unity this year

Updated: Havok Physics now out as a preview package. DXR ray tracing also available in preview.

Thursday, November 7th, 2019

Get Quake II with real-time ray tracing and PBR materials

Now available to download: Nvidia updates the 1997 shooter for real-time path tracing on Turing GPUs.

Monday, June 10th, 2019

Isotropix adds GPU ray tracing in Clarisse iFX 4.0 SP2

It's limited to the 3D viewport, not final output, but it can result in a render speed boost of 'up to 100x'.

Monday, April 29th, 2019

New Nvidia driver brings true DXR ray tracing to older GPUs

Free driver update extends DXR support on selected Pascal and Volta GPUs, including the GeForce 1060 to 1080 Ti.

Friday, April 12th, 2019

Watch Neon Noir, Crytek's new real-time ray tracing demo

The tech runs on current mid-range AMD and Nvidia GPUs, and is due in the CryEngine roadmap this year.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

Sneak peek: real-time ray tracing in Notch Builder

See the real-time motion graphics tool's interesting new path tracing system. Runs on any current GPU.

Thursday, February 21st, 2019

Video: Chaos Group's new real-time ray tracing system

'Project Lavina' demo shows 300 billion triangles rendering at over 25fps on a single commercial GPU.

Tuesday, August 14th, 2018

Videos: See Microsoft's new DirectX Raytracing in action

Updated: neat Star Wars short shows the real-time effects possible in UE4 with this new extension to DX12.

Wednesday, March 21st, 2018

Can raytracing really kill raster graphics?

Imagination Technologies thinks so. We explore why its new raytracing cards could change how you work.

Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

Imagination ships Caustic Series2 raytracing boards

Innovative new dedicated hardware gives real-time raytracing for the price of a high-end pro GPU.

Thursday, January 31st, 2013