Nvidia's Quake II RTX now runs on AMD GPUs using Vulkan, if you've got the right driver (and an RX 6000). Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit ...

Real-time ray tracing has been one of the biggest advances in GPU rendering and PC gaming in the past decade. Due to the sheer hardware grunt required to achieve it, it kickstarted the push into the ...

To date, PC games with ray traced visuals have had to lean on Microsoft’s DirectX or use GPU-specific code. Now, however, that technology should be available to a wider audience. LunarG has released a ...

RADV is Mesa's unofficial open-source Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux that adds ray-tracing support for older RDNA 2-based Radeon GPUs like the Radeon RX 6800 XT. Games like Hitman III, Quake II RTX, ...

Back in the day, before the ubiquity of discrete graphics cards with powerful programmable engines, 3D games used what we now term "software rendering." This means that the graphics renderer ran ...

A developer working on Mesa 3D Graphics Library gave an interesting demonstration this week. They’ve implemented support for CPU-based ray tracing in Vulkan, and while it’s an interesting proof of ...

In a nutshell: We all know it's the GPU that does the heavy lifting with ray tracing in games. With dedicated compute units primed for rendering those realistic rays of light, the idea of running ray ...