The long-awaited real-time ray tracing future was finally here. I remember closing my laptop lid after the announcement was finished and thinking about the mobile version of the GTX 1060 GPU inside.

Ray tracing has been one of the biggest buzzwords for desktop GPUs since 2018, which is when Nvidia brought it to gamers with ...

Avowed also used the hardware ray tracing (RT) technique to achieve even greater visual fidelity. However, RT usually has a big performance impact and often reduces framerates in the game.