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 ...

A ray tracing technique known as path tracing looks set to make it to mainstream PC gaming, thanks to an SDK release by NVIDIA today. Implementing real-time path tracing is claimed by the graphics ...

Let's talk about path tracing, hardware-heads. While the difference between ray-tracing and path-tracing has been debated, the industry has largely settled on using ray-tracing as an umbrella term ...