Minecraft's Super Duper Graphics pack may be no more, but a more impressive upgrade is on its way. Minecraft is getting real-time ray tracing - or more accurately, path tracing. This is part of a new ...

As part of its Financial Analyst Day, AMD presented a very brief technology roadmap for Radeon and RDNA, and the future is ...

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 ...

The Khronos Group behind graphics API Vulkan has announced the ratification and public release of Vulkan Ray Tracing. Delivered via a handful of open-source extensions, Vulkan is now able to offer ...

Unless you're a physicist, you probably don't pay too much mind to the function of light in your daily life. Light is light, right? When there is light, we see, and when there isn't, we don't. But ...