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Update | Witcher 4 tech demo shows stunning 60 FPS gameplay with ray tracing on base PS5

Unreal Engine has enabled some sophisticated and efficient technologies that are allowing Witcher 4 to look and play stunningly on the base PS5. The tech demo, part of State of Unreal livestream, ...
Dark Side Of Gaming

The Abandoned Warehouse Tech Demo is the perfect example of why Unreal Engine 5 and real-time Ray Tracing can only harm games/demos with amazing pre-baked lighting

In September 2023, Scans Factory released a pretty cool tech demo for Unreal Engine 4, called Abandoned Warehouse. That demo had amazing pre-baked lighting using traditional methods, and it did not ...
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Fantasy Ruins Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demo showcases the benefits of Ray Tracing/Lumen, and why pre-baked lighting remains the king of performance/visuals ratio

YouTube’s ‘Cycu1’ has shared a new interesting comparison video for the Fantasy Ruins Tech Demo of Unreal Engine 5. In this video, the YouTuber compares its UE5 ...
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Stunning new Witcher 4 footage runs at 60fps on standard PS5 with ray tracing

Forward-looking: Unreal Engine 5 is taxing on PC and console hardware, especially with its Lumen ray tracing feature. A new Witcher 4 tech demo using UE 5.6 showcases improved performance without ...
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Half-Life 2 RTX demo drops March 18 with two hours of stunning full ray tracing gameplay

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. It's one of the most celebrated and acclaimed PC games ever made, and in 2025, Valve's Half-Life 2 is still a stone-cold classic. Half-Life 2 RTX, from ...
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DLSS 5 is the new ray tracing, and it's going to be inescapable soon

DLSS 5 is currently just an Nvidia model applied on top of an already rendered frame, and as of right now, it's a toggle that ...
TechSpot

Homebrew demo shows real-time ray tracing on 1994 Sega Saturn console

WTF?! Real-time ray tracing is one of the most computationally demanding features in modern video games, significantly impacting frame rates on the latest consoles and most PC graphics cards. However, ...
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Ray Tracing Technology Explained: How Realistic Lighting Transforms Modern Video Games and Graphics

Ray tracing technology is changing how modern games render light by simulating how rays travel, bounce, and interact with objects in a virtual environment. This allows graphics rendering to produce ...
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Lackluster RX 9070 series path tracing demo suggests large gap with RTX 50-series GPUs

After last week's RDNA 4 announcement, the $599 price of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT met expectations. The GPU seems to be a bargain with comparable specs to Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti. However, a recent AMD ...
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Intel Demos Cloud-Based Ray Tracing, Squeezes Wolfenstein onto 5-Inch Tablet

Late last year Intel showed off a ray traced version of Wolfenstein at the Intel Developer Forum. While the game's graphics were displayed on a standard Dell laptop, the individual frames were being ...

ARM Mali G2-Ultra NX might be packing DLSS level graphics on mobile chipsets: Here’s how

Do you still remember the time when ray tracing on mobile was just a buzzword and nothing more? Arm hopes to make you erase ...
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Ray Tracing vs Path Tracing: What’s the Difference in Gaming Graphics?

Ray tracing and path tracing are two major technologies shaping modern gaming graphics and graphics rendering in 2026. In this graphics comparison, both techniques improve lighting, reflections, and ...