Technically speaking, the concept of ray tracing has existed for as long as digital 3D art has. Of course, rendering realistic light and shadow in a static image is a completely different matter ...

You might point out that the RTX 4060 costs only around $300, but I'll argue that to truly experience ray tracing at 1440p or 4K resolutions, you need at least an RTX 4070 Super, which costs $600 ...

That's because the ray tracing performance of today's graphics cards is well known by PC Gamers—Nvidia's graphics chips are the most capable in this respect, followed by AMD and then Intel.

Ray tracing has been around a surprisingly long time in computer graphics. It was used to generate images in the 1960s, and by the '80s new algorithms had been created including path tracing.

I’m certainly going to be logging back in to try out the NVIDIA tech, which in many ways is a preview of what next-gen ray tracing looks like instead of even the Psycho setting, which was rooted ...