RTX neural rendering is now available for game developers thanks to NVIDIA updating the RTX Kit with its latest ...

The new update for Alan Wake II is here and it adds new Nvidia tech to improve ray tracing performance across all RTX GPUs.

Ray tracing is typically seen as a trade-off between visuals and performance – enhancing lighting realism at the cost of FPS. However, there's a second trade off that is talked about less: noise.

NVIDIA was selling a product line on a promise, and it did not deliver. Even the flagship 2080 Ti was woefully inadequate in ray tracing demos, and was quickly trounced by next-generation cards.

Tests show that RTX Mega Geometry, a new Nvidia technology recently added to Alan Wake 2, increases framerates and improves image quality in heavily ray-traced scenes.

More specifically, senior Nvidia VP Jeff Fisher says that Nvidia, "launched ray tracing and DLSS to a thud." It was, of course, the RTX 20 family released in September 2018 that introduced those ...

At CES 2025, demos showed impressive results ... and updates complex geometry for ray tracing calculations in real-time, reducing CPU overhead," NVIDIA writes. "This improves FPS and reduces ...

While the Ray Tracing: Override mode only supports a few NVIDIA GPUs, any graphics card with ray tracing support and 8GB of VRAM can use the new path-traced screenshots option in Photo Mode.

Nvidia is coming out swinging with its new ... with it being the first game to require ray tracing.