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‘Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’ will have ray-tracing support

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When Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War drops on November 13th, you’ll be able to play it with ray-tracing turned on. Support for ray-tracing was confirmed during NVIDIA’s event today, during which it revealed new GeForce RTX graphics cards.According t...

‘Fortnite’ will soon support ray-tracing and NVIDIA’s DLSS tech

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Fortnite is about to get a whole lot prettier. As revealed during NVIDIA’s event, Epic Games’ all-conquering battle royale will support ray-tracing and DLSS, NVIDIA’s AI-powered antialiasing tech, sometime soon.Unless you play on a next-gen console t...

‘Crysis Remastered’ can run in 8K, if your PC can handle it

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If a Nintendo Switch can run the Crysis remaster, you might assume more powerful consoles and modern PCs should have no trouble in handing the notoriously resource-hungry game. Maybe not so much if you’re hoping to play Crysis Remastered with all the...

‘Control’ is headed to PS5 and Xbox Series X

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Remedy’s mind-bending action-adventure Control has won plenty of praise, including for its gorgeous visuals. But, at least before the developer improved the game’s performance with patches, it struggled on the base PS4 and Xbox One, and dropped to as...

NVIDIA’s new RTX Super cards are a pre-emptive strike on AMD

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With AMD's next generation of GPUs just days away, NVIDIA is making good on its drawn-out tease with a trio of new graphics cards: the RTX 2060 Super, RTX 2070 Super and the RTX 2080 Super. What does that "Super" mean? Well, there's not a single answ...

The free ‘Quake II RTX’ demo is now available on Steam

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To show off the capabilities of path tracing, NVIDIA has released an updated version of id Software's classic 1997 FPS Quake II. You can play the first three single-player levels of Quake II RTX for free, and if you own the full game, you'll be able...

NVIDIA shows how much ray-tracing sucks on older GPUs

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NVIDIA recently announced that ray-tracing is coming to older Pascal GPUs, and now it has detailed how well -- or not well, rather -- it will actually work. If you're happy with basic effects, the news isn't too bad. The RTX 2080 Ti will outperform i...

NVIDIA’s ray tracing tech will soon run on older GTX cards

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NVIDIA has announced that its ray-tracing tech, only available on its new RTX cards so far, is coming to its older GeForce GTX 10-series cards in April. The technology will work on GPUs from the GTX 1060 and up, albeit with some serious caveats. Some...

NVIDIA RTX 2060 hands-on: Ray-tracing on a budget

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Finally, NVIDIA's RTX 2060 is here. And that's great news for gamers on a budget. At $349, it's the cheapest of NVIDIA's desktop RTX GPUs, which sport next-generation features like real-time ray tracing. The mid-range RTX 2070 goes for around $50...