Here we go folks, Best Buy’s Day 1 Black Friday Doorbuster deals are now live! Yesterday we featured the brand’s Black Friday sneak peak online ad as well as some of the early Doorbuster deals as part of Best Buy’s early access sale for Plus and Total ...
Apple finally included a telephoto lens in its iPhone 15 Pro Max last year, with the upgrade extended to the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. This is just one of the many examples of how the Cupertino firm adopts various standards much later than the competition, likely because it wants to offer the best configuration to customers. One other technology that the company is said to bring for the iPhone 18 that rivals like Samsung introduced years ago is variable aperture for the main camera, and according to one analyst, another supplier will provide these parts. Sunny […]
The use of TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process for the M4 series has made Apple’s latest chipsets more thermally efficient, but that does not mean that a capable cooling solution should be ignored from the rest of the hardware configuration. In fact, depending on how robust that solution is, we can actually get more performance from the M4, as demonstrated in the latest Premiere Pro 4K Export test, where the redesigned Mac mini is faster than Apple’s updated 14-inch MacBook Pro. However, one other hardware ends up taking the crown, and we will discuss why this is happening. The 24-inch M4 […]
A Doom II: Ray Traced comparison video was shared online this week, highlighting the stunning visual improvements the path tracing mod brings to the classic game. The video, put together by Cycu1, does an excellent job showing not only how stunning the game looks with path tracing but also how much the atmosphere is improved, making the game almost feel like a horror game at times. Sadly, path tracing sometimes makes it difficult to spot enemies in the dark, which is expected, but it's only a minor issue compared to how much better the game looks with path tracing. 2024 and 2025 are […]
A stunning Doom II: Ray Traced path tracing mod is now available for download, turning the classic second entry in the series into something unreal. The path tracing mod, which can be downloaded from here, utilizes GZDoom, adding features like global illumination, ray-traced shadows, voxels, and fluid-based blood simulation. Needless to say, path tracing turns the classic game into something else, vastly enhancing its atmosphere and bringing its experience to new heights. You can check out how path tracing enhances the game before downloading the mod in the video below. It's really interesting how the Doom II: Ray Traced mod […]
The Resident Evil 4 remake looks glorious with path tracing in certain scenarios, but the increased visual quality comes at a high cost, especially at 4K resolution. A new video shared by MxBenchmarkPC puts the game's vanilla ray tracing features, which are limited to ray-traced reflections, and modded path tracing side-by-side, highlighting how much path tracing improves the game's visuals in certain scenarios despite the lack of denoisers by adding more reflective surfaces and more. This, however, comes at a huge performance cost, as the frame rate is essentially halved in most scenarios on an RTX 4080 GPU and with […]
The path tracing mod released last week for Dragon's Dogma 2 is now compatible with all Resident Evil games powered by the RE Engine, enhancing the games' visuals considerably. The mod developed by EXXXcellent has now been integrated in the latest build of the REFramework by Praydog, introducing RTGI/AO and Reflections in the Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes, 7 and Village, and RT Reflections only in the remake of the fourth entry in the series released last year. While the lack of denoising definitely impacts visual quality, the path tracing mod does enhance visuals in most scenarios, as highlighted […]
A new Unreal Engine 5.3 comparison video was shared online recently, putting Lumen and path tracing side by side in a specific game to highlight visual and performance differences. The new comparison video, which was put together by MxBenchmarkPC, shows the visually stunning DESORDRE: A Puzzle Game Adventure running with software and hardware Lumen and the recently-introduced path tracing mode. While path tracing is obviously superior, the video does a great job highlighting how great hardware Lumen looks. On the other hand, Software Lumen definitely leaves something to be desired, looking noisy and not particularly good. While both Lumen and […]
The sequel to Alan Wake, Alan Wake 2, has finally landed, and with it comes some of the most impressive visual technologies and graphics that we have seen to date thanks to Path Tracing which is complemented through the use of NVIDIA's DLSS 3.5 Ray Rec...
NVIDIA has published the first performance numbers of Remedy's upcoming thriller, Alan Wake 2, which features full path tracing & support for DLSS 3.5. Alan Wake 2 To Feature Full Path Tracing & DLSS 3.5 Support On Launch: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40...
To celebrate the launch of NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Digital Foundry hosted a roundtable video chat with Bryan Catanzaro (Vice President of Applied Deep Learning Research […]
Alan Wake 2 got plenty of news yesterday at Gamescom 2023. First, NVIDIA confirmed that the game would feature full-fledged path tracing on PC as well as NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 […]
As part of a press briefing that Wccftech attended last week, NVIDIA announced the next wave of games getting DLSS and RTX support, starting with Alan Wake II. To the […]
Renowned modder Pascal Gilcher, also known as Marty McFly, has demonstrated an impressive world space path tracing solution implemented in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Marty, the engineer behind the […]
As part of its Q2 FY 2025 financial presentation, SEGA has announced the sale of Amplitude Studios, the Paris-based studio known as the developer of Endless Space, Endless Legend, Dungeon of the Endless, Endless Space 2, Humankind, and more recently, Endless Dungeon. SEGA explained this concludes its wave of restructuring the European business, which previously included the sale of Relic Entertainment and substantial layoffs. The Group recorded an extraordinary loss of approximately ¥5.9 billion ($38.7 million) in the second quarter for the fiscal year due to the sale of overseas development studio Amplitude Studios SAS through a management buyout. [...] […]
The Target 3-day early Black Friday sale is now live but we are also now onto Day 8 of its Black Friday Deals of the Day. There are now “thousands of deals” live over at Target alongside the now live Best Buy early Doorbuster sale, and the daily deals ...
A Doom II: Ray Traced comparison video was shared online this week, highlighting the stunning visual improvements the path tracing mod brings to the classic game. The video, put together by Cycu1, does an excellent job showing not only how stunning the game looks with path tracing but also how much the atmosphere is improved, making the game almost feel like a horror game at times. Sadly, path tracing sometimes makes it difficult to spot enemies in the dark, which is expected, but it's only a minor issue compared to how much better the game looks with path tracing. 2024 and 2025 are […]
A stunning Doom II: Ray Traced path tracing mod is now available for download, turning the classic second entry in the series into something unreal. The path tracing mod, which can be downloaded from here, utilizes GZDoom, adding features like global illumination, ray-traced shadows, voxels, and fluid-based blood simulation. Needless to say, path tracing turns the classic game into something else, vastly enhancing its atmosphere and bringing its experience to new heights. You can check out how path tracing enhances the game before downloading the mod in the video below. It's really interesting how the Doom II: Ray Traced mod […]
The Resident Evil 4 remake looks glorious with path tracing in certain scenarios, but the increased visual quality comes at a high cost, especially at 4K resolution. A new video shared by MxBenchmarkPC puts the game's vanilla ray tracing features, which are limited to ray-traced reflections, and modded path tracing side-by-side, highlighting how much path tracing improves the game's visuals in certain scenarios despite the lack of denoisers by adding more reflective surfaces and more. This, however, comes at a huge performance cost, as the frame rate is essentially halved in most scenarios on an RTX 4080 GPU and with […]
The path tracing mod released last week for Dragon's Dogma 2 is now compatible with all Resident Evil games powered by the RE Engine, enhancing the games' visuals considerably. The mod developed by EXXXcellent has now been integrated in the latest build of the REFramework by Praydog, introducing RTGI/AO and Reflections in the Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes, 7 and Village, and RT Reflections only in the remake of the fourth entry in the series released last year. While the lack of denoising definitely impacts visual quality, the path tracing mod does enhance visuals in most scenarios, as highlighted […]
A new Unreal Engine 5.3 comparison video was shared online recently, putting Lumen and path tracing side by side in a specific game to highlight visual and performance differences. The new comparison video, which was put together by MxBenchmarkPC, shows the visually stunning DESORDRE: A Puzzle Game Adventure running with software and hardware Lumen and the recently-introduced path tracing mode. While path tracing is obviously superior, the video does a great job highlighting how great hardware Lumen looks. On the other hand, Software Lumen definitely leaves something to be desired, looking noisy and not particularly good. While both Lumen and […]
The sequel to Alan Wake, Alan Wake 2, has finally landed, and with it comes some of the most impressive visual technologies and graphics that we have seen to date thanks to Path Tracing which is complemented through the use of NVIDIA's DLSS 3.5 Ray Rec...
NVIDIA has published the first performance numbers of Remedy's upcoming thriller, Alan Wake 2, which features full path tracing & support for DLSS 3.5. Alan Wake 2 To Feature Full Path Tracing & DLSS 3.5 Support On Launch: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40...
To celebrate the launch of NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Digital Foundry hosted a roundtable video chat with Bryan Catanzaro (Vice President of Applied Deep Learning Research […]
Alan Wake 2 got plenty of news yesterday at Gamescom 2023. First, NVIDIA confirmed that the game would feature full-fledged path tracing on PC as well as NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 […]
As part of a press briefing that Wccftech attended last week, NVIDIA announced the next wave of games getting DLSS and RTX support, starting with Alan Wake II. To the […]
Renowned modder Pascal Gilcher, also known as Marty McFly, has demonstrated an impressive world space path tracing solution implemented in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Marty, the engineer behind the […]