Although ray tracing can add visual realism to top-tier games, it can also maul the performance of otherwise top-tier PCs. It ...

Is Microsoft tracing Nvidia's already-trodden path...?

Microsoft has unveiled DirectX Raytracing 1.2 (DXR 1.2) at GDC 2025, introducing two major innovations designed to address ...

Microsoft's GDC presentation this week offered a glimpse into the future of DirectX ray tracing support. The company claims ...

Ray tracing was first announced for gaming in March 2018 for the DirectX 12 API at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). However, the first game using this ray tracing technology, Battlefield V ...

Additionally, Microsoft calls out shader execution reordering with a 2x performance uplfit "in some scenarios," which it ...

Microsoft announced DirectX Raytracing (DXR) 1.2, which will bring massive 2X and 2.3X improvements to ray-tracing performance.

Ray tracing has become a new trend in PC gaming and other graphics-related tasks. Its demand for PCs is quite high, even for those with high-end graphics cards. For this reason, Microsoft has ...

DXR 1.2 will be released for developers, standardizing new functions for more speed at two stages in the graphics pipeline.

With claims of up to 2.3x performance gains in path-traced games, Microsoft's DXR 1.2 update has the potential to change the face of gaming in a major way.

GDC 2025 Microsoft a détaillé les avancées de son API DirectX Raytracing 1.2. Le géant précise que cela est dû à de ...