Windows Report

Mesa Update Brings Vulkan 1.4 and Big AMD Ray Tracing Gains

Mesa 26.0.0 launches with Vulkan 1.4 support, major AMD RADV ray tracing boosts, and broad GPU updates across Linux systems.
ExtremeTech

Quake II RTX Now Runs on AMD GPUs Thanks to Vulkan Ray Tracing

Nvidia's Quake II RTX now runs on AMD GPUs using Vulkan, if you've got the right driver (and an RX 6000). Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit ...
TweakTown

CPU real-time ray-tracing is here, but performance in Quake 2 RTX sits at 1 FPS

Real-time ray tracing has been one of the biggest advances in GPU rendering and PC gaming in the past decade. Due to the sheer hardware grunt required to achieve it, it kickstarted the push into the ...
GamingOnLinux

Mesa 26.0 is out bringing ray tracing performance improvements for AMD RADV

Mesa 26.0 has arrived as the latest new-feature release of open source graphics drivers, and there's a whole lot to be ...
TechSpot

Developer manages to run ray tracing without a GPU, achieves 1 fps on Quake II RTX

In a nutshell: We all know it's the GPU that does the heavy lifting with ray tracing in games. With dedicated compute units primed for rendering those realistic rays of light, the idea of running ray ...
PCGamesN

Step aside graphics cards, you can now run ray tracing on a CPU

Ray tracing may well be more commonplace in games these days but it's still seen as a hugely difficult graphics feature to process, requiring powerful graphics cards with dedicated ray tracing ...