The Khronos Group has added Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions to Vulkan API, creating the industry's first open, cross-vendor, cross platform standard for ray tracing acceleration. According to details ...

Khronos Group, the company behind the Vulkan application programming interface (API), announced today that it now supports ray tracing, the buzzword friendly feature Nvidia pushed and console makers ...

To date, PC games with ray traced visuals have had to lean on Microsoft’s DirectX or use GPU-specific code. Now, however, that technology should be available to a wider audience. LunarG has released a ...

Khronos has announced that it has reached a significant milestone in the development of Vulkan. A few hours ago it released the final versions of the set of Vulkan, GLSL and SPIR-V extension ...

“Although ray tracing will be first deployed on desktop systems, these Vulkan extensions have been designed to enable and encourage ray tracing to also be deployed on mobile,” the Khronos Group said ...

In brief: Vulkan has become a strong and popular contender to Microsoft's DirectX 12 graphics API. It's favored by developers (and even players, such as myself) for its superior performance (when well ...

Hardware Microsoft celebrates 10 years of DirectX 12: A decade of updates to the low-level graphics API but it's still not the master of all things rendering Graphics Cards Nvidia is reportedly ...

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 ...

NVIDIA has supported real-time ray tracing in games for over two years now, starting first with the GeForce RTX 20 Series (Turing), and now with it current-generation GeForce RTX 30 Series (Ampere).

You haven't seen much ray tracing in games due in part to the limited frameworks for it. Outside of Microsoft's DirectX, creators have usually had to lean on proprietary approaches. Soon, though, it ...