We’re now in an era where fancy rendering techniques like ray tracing and even full path tracing tend to steal the show. I get it—they look incredible in screenshots, tech demos, and gameplay videos ...

The basic specs give you an initial theoretical performance picture, with NV40's improvements over NV3x quite clear. 16 basic pixel pipelines, 6 'fixed' vertex shader units, twice the shader ...

With the introduction of the AMD Radeon HD 6800 series and its new hardware texture capabilities, the AMD Catalyst A.I. user interface in AMD Catalyst Control Center has also been updated to allow ...

On GeForce4 Ti, anti aliasing is done using multisampling. The card checks polygon edges to see if the pixels are covered by other polygons. By only testing polygon edges it only does edge aliasing in ...

PC graphics have hit a standstill. Of course, we're still getting beautiful games that push the technical envelope on PC, from Doom: The Dark Ageswith its real-time path tracing to Nvidia's ...

He discovered that on less than the absurd maximum AA levels, his Vega 56 is not only way better than 1070, but in some cases better than 1080. 2) nVidia has an advantage in texture filtering, at ...