In brief: Vulkan has become a strong and popular contender to Microsoft's DirectX 12 graphics API. It's favored by developers (and even players, such as myself) for its superior performance (when well ...

After a slow start, ray tracing continues to spread its wings. What started as a geeky Windows 10 feature now finds a home in the next-gen Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 consoles as well, and on ...

NVIDIA has supported real-time ray tracing in games for over two years now, starting first with the GeForce RTX 20 Series (Turing), and now with it current-generation GeForce RTX 30 Series (Ampere).

Khronos has announced that it has reached a significant milestone in the development of Vulkan. A few hours ago it released the final versions of the set of Vulkan, GLSL and SPIR-V extension ...

NVIDIA has released a new update for Quake 2 RTX that adds support for platform-agnostic Vulkan Ray Tracing. This basically means that Quake 2 RTX is no longer locked on NVIDIA’s hardware. Instead, ...

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 ...

SEOUL, South Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiliconArts has become a full member of the Khronos® Group standards consortium to support the development and ratification of ray tracing extensions to the ...

Vulkan Ray Tracing is consolidating around a single device-address-based workflow for acceleration structure and micromap builds. Host-side commands such as ...

In preparation for next year’s Xe HPG graphics cards, Intel’s open-source developers have begun publishing their patches enabling their ANV Vulkan Linux driver to support ray-tracing. The free Vulkan ...

NVIDIA RTX Remix is a platform that will allow modders to add Ray Tracing to decades-old classic games that worked on DirectX ...

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 ...