TL;DR: UL Solutions has announced Solar Bay Extreme as a free update for 3DMark, a much more demanding ray tracing benchmark featuring advanced ray-traced reflections with up to a 5x higher workload ...

Despite Nvidia’s dominance of the consumer graphics card market, AMD’s 7000 series is pretty great… unless you want ray tracing. The advanced lighting techniques are where Nvidia’s cards truly shine, ...

Few people were asking me last week, "Hey Steve, what did you do over the easter break?" and I told them "you know, just relaxed." And that's sort of true, but the real truth is I benchmarked the ...

After decades of work, is ray tracing nearly ready for prime time? We examine the technology's industrial and consumer gaming applications. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

The gaming industry has been a forefront for technology since its early days, pushing the expectations of things like handheld computing, online communication, and of course, graphics. For the last ...