Every few years, it seems like there's an amazing new technology with the promise of making games look ever more realistic. Over the decades, we've had shaders, tessellation, shadow mapping, ray ...

Real-time path tracing, the next stage of game rendering, is on the horizon, Nvidia says. But wait--didn't RTX just get here? So what is path tracing, how is it different from ray tracing, and why ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Simply put, path tracing is a more advanced form of ray tracing which relies upon simulating the ...