Ray Tracing / Path Tracing

Feb 06, 2025
Render Path-Traced Hair in Real Time with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs
Hardware support for ray tracing triangle meshes was introduced as part of NVIDIA RTX in 2018. But ray tracing for hair and fur has remained a compute-intensive...
9 MIN READ

Feb 06, 2025
NVIDIA RTX Mega Geometry Now Available with New Vulkan Samples
Geometric detail in computer graphics has increased exponentially in the past 30 years. To render high quality assets with higher instance counts and greater...
5 MIN READ

Jan 30, 2025
Build Apps with Neural Rendering Using NVIDIA Nsight Developer Tools on GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs
The next generation of NVIDIA graphics hardware has arrived. Powered by NVIDIA Blackwell, GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs deliver groundbreaking new RTX features...
4 MIN READ

Dec 20, 2024
Just Released: GPU Zen 3: Advanced Rendering Techniques
Grab your copy of GPU Zen 3 to learn about the latest in real-time rendering.
1 MIN READ

Dec 17, 2024
Efficient Ray Tracing with NVIDIA OptiX Shader Binding Table Optimization
NVIDIA OptiX is the API for GPU-accelerated ray tracing with CUDA, and is often used to render scenes containing a wide variety of objects and materials. During...
11 MIN READ

Dec 05, 2024
Optimize GPU Workloads for Graphics Applications with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics
One of the great pastimes of graphics developers and enthusiasts is comparing specifications of GPUs and marveling at the ever-increasing counts of shader...
11 MIN READ

Jul 31, 2024
Shader Debugging Made Easy with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics
Shaders are specialized programs that run on the GPU that manipulate rays, pixels, vertices, and textures to achieve unique visual effects. With shaders, you...
8 MIN READ

May 16, 2024
Webinar: Path Traced Visuals in Unreal Engine
Integrate RTX into your own game and understand what ReSTIR means for the future of real-time lighting in this May 21 webinar.
1 MIN READ

Mar 21, 2024
Upgrade Your Graphics: Explore New Ray Tracing Features for NVIDIA Nsight Tools
The union of ray tracing and AI is pushing graphics fidelity and performance to new heights. Helping you build optimized, bug-free applications in this era of...
5 MIN READ

Mar 19, 2024
Generative AI for Digital Human Technologies and New AI-powered NVIDIA RTX Lighting
At GDC 2024, NVIDIA announced that leading AI application developers such as Inworld AI are using NVIDIA digital human technologies to accelerate the deployment...
4 MIN READ

Mar 14, 2024
Powerful Shader Insights: Using Shader Debug Info with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics
As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a...
7 MIN READ

Feb 20, 2024
Event: NVIDIA at GDC 2024
Join us at the Game Developers Conference March 18-22 to discover how the latest generative AI and NVIDIA RTX technologies are accelerating game development.
1 MIN READ

Jan 12, 2024
Webinar: State of Ray Tracing and NvRTX 5.3
Get up to speed on the current state of ray tracing in the NVIDIA RTX Branch of Unreal Engine and what’s coming next.
1 MIN READ

Dec 20, 2023
Q&A: Looking Back to When 1997’s Quake II Got a Path Tracing Update
In 2019, if you wanted to check out the cutting edge in video game graphics, you needed an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series GPU and a copy of a game that was...
4 MIN READ

Dec 20, 2023
Q&A: Real-Time Ray Tracing in a Cinematic Scene
Six years ago, real-time ray tracing was seen as a pipe dream. Back then, cinematic-quality rendering required computer farms to slowly bake every frame...
5 MIN READ

Nov 30, 2023
Webinar: Explore NVIDIA RTX Workflows with JSFILMZ
In this webinar, see how YouTube creator JSFILMZ uses NVIDIA RTX and how it enables him to iterate on creative ideas.
1 MIN READ