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WoW Shadowlands to Add DXR & Raytracing Support
One of the biggest positive factors from World of Warcraft is that despite it now being several expansions old, Blizzard has always looked (wherever possible) to ensure that in terms of PC requirements, even the latest version can still run on a (relatively speaking) potato PC. It seems, however, that…
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Microsoft Details Next DirectX 12 Update and DXR 1.1
A lot of attention goes to the Nvidia and AMD driver updates. Of course, even their graphics cards have to bow to the mercy of DirectX at the best of times. The last major update was back in October last year. Developers are now tinkering with a new range of…
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Attack from Outer Space DXR Ray Tracing Demo Released
Attack From Outer Space With the release of the Nvidia 20XX graphics cards last year, ray tracing is still one of the biggest buzz words in the industry. Admittedly, some are not entirely convinced with it and believe that rather than a big bang, the technology is more of a…
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Nvidia – COD Modern Warfare Will Support DirectX Ray Tracing
Call of Duty Modern Warfare Well, it was hardly unexpected, but Activision has finally confirmed what Call of Duty game we can expect for this year and it seems that Modern Warfare is officially back on the agenda. With the release, perhaps the most exciting news was that the game…
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider DXR Performance Analysis
Shadow of the Tomb Raider RTX and DLSS The latest Tomb Raider game is finally an RTX enabled game! When Nvidia launched their RTX equipped graphics cards, we were treated to some very sexy technical demos, but not many real games to play. We’ve already done our RTX performance testing…
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Metro Exodus and Battlefield V DLSS – A Performance Boost With Compromises
Introduction DLSS The addition of DLSS is big news for Nvidia and gamers, but does it live up to the hype? We already know from our current testing that turning on Ray Tracing is a good way to cut down those lovely framerates. However, from my own gaming experience, the…
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AMD Confirm All DX12 GPUs Support Ray Tracing – Just Not Yet
AMD Confirm Is Has Ray Tracing Compatibility One of the biggest ‘buzzwords’ since the release of the Nvidia 20XX series of graphics cards has been ‘ray tracing’. The technology essentially allows their graphics card to render ultra-realistic light settings in a real-time environment. To date, however, AMD has shown little…
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DLSS Patch Hitting Battlefield V Tomorrow!
DLSS Patch Are you enjoying Battlefield V? I know I have been! With the introduction of RTX features such as Ray Tracing to the game. Battlefield V marked the introduction to real-time ray-traced lighting effects for the masses. When we benchmarked the game at launch, RT pretty much cut the…
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Battlefield V DXR Update Performance – RTX Just Got Exciting
Introduction Battlefield V DXR Update Recently, the world was treated to both the launch of Battlefield V from EA, as well as the RTX series of graphics cards from Nvidia. The two are very interesting, as RTX introduced the first commercial gamer GPUs that work with the latest DirectX RT…
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GPU Testbench Upgrade & Performance 2018-2019
GPU Testbench Upgrade The hardware elves have been to visit us way in advance of Christmas this year. That means we’ve had the hardware and the time to overhaul our test benches, software, and methodology once more! That means a faster test system to ensure we get the best out…
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Microsoft Finally Release October DXR Update!
Microsoft To Focus On Quality Updates In 2019 Despite the Microsoft October Update finally releasing, I think it’s pretty safe to say that this hasn’t gone entirely according to plan. For starters, a good indication should be that the October update released in mid-November. Its delay has caused a significant issue,…
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