A fraction of the most popular PC games of the last year use hardware-level ray tracing

That's five of the 21 most popular games.
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You're not wrong: Ray tracing still isn't worth the performance hit in most games

Ray tracing is often hailed as the apex of gaming graphics, cited as the reason behind peak immersion and realism. Nvidia brought real-time ray tracing to consumer GPUs in 2018 and pushed the ...
TweakTown

Dying Light: The Beast and Cronos: The New Dawn trailers showcase stunning ray-traced visuals

TL;DR: Dying Light: The Beast and Cronos: The New Dawn launch in September 2025, featuring advanced ray-traced visuals and DLSS 4 support for enhanced lighting, reflections, and performance on GeForce ...

DirectX just made shader execution reordering official, boosting ray tracing performance in games

The recently released Shader Model 6.9 brings Microsoft's official take on Shader Execution Reordering (SER) out of preview. Nvidia and a few game developers have already ...
GameSpot

Ray Tracing Hasn't Yet Lived Up To Its Potential

The gaming industry has been a forefront for technology since its early days, pushing the expectations of things like handheld computing, online communication, and of course, graphics. For the last ...
TechSpot

The most popular PC games still rarely use hardware ray tracing

In brief: Nvidia launched its push toward hardware-accelerated ray tracing in 2018 with its GeForce RTX 20 series graphics cards, promoting the technology as a defining feature of next-gen gaming.