Digital Foundry praises Crimson Desert for strong native 4K performance with ray tracing and surprisingly reasonable PC requirements.

Microsoft has shipped a set of Direct3D 12 upgrades that target one of the most persistent bottlenecks in PC gaming, the cost of real-time ray tracing. The updates, delivered through the DirectX 12 ...

Microsoft says devs will get a first look at Project Helix in 2027, huge ray tracing boost also confirmed ...

Upgrading a gaming PC is a serious step, and it’s natural to want clear proof that the new hardware was worth the investment. Many players ...

The recently released Shader Model 6.9 brings Microsoft's official take on Shader Execution Reordering (SER) out of preview. Nvidia and a few game developers have already ...

Microsoft has introduced a significant upgrade to its graphics development toolkit with the release of DirectX Agility SDK ...

In the real-world, light bounces around our environment naturally, creating the scene our eyes absorb. In many games, this effect is faked – or “baked” – but ray tracing enables each individual beam ...

Apple’s laptop buffet table is crowded with meaty and miniature Macs alike. The plate is so packed, the M5 MacBook Air seems destined for back-of-fridge leftover status. The refreshed MacBook Air is a ...

FPS, ray tracing, and 4K details. How does the Black Space Engine perform on the Sony console? All the technical details.

If you don’t need the sheer power of the M5 Max chip, you can step down to the still-very-beefy M5 Pro chip. A 14-inch ...

Let me hit pause on how Ray Reconstruction enhances Grace's nightmare, as Requiem plays with genres a little. When playing as Leon, you're plunged back into a Resident Evil 4 kind of romp, and I ...

With Shader Execution Reordering, some Intel and Nvidia GPUs deliver up to 90% greater FPS in a specific path-tracing benchmark, Microsoft says. But AMD might miss out.