Enlarge / E2M1 has never looked so cool. Welcome to the ray-traced Doom experience. (credit: id Software) Since the launch of Quake II RTX in 2019, fans have kept their eyes peeled for similar ray- and path-tracing updates for other classic ’90s shooters. It’s fertile upgrade territory, since modern machines push vanilla versions of Doom […]
Enlarge (credit: AMD) When the PC industry’s two biggest graphics card manufacturers aren’t battling over benchmarks or chip shortage woes, they’ve been fighting over a different sales pitch: boosting performance for older GPUs. And while Nvidia has largely won that war, that has come with an asterisk of a proprietary performance-boosting system, DLSS, that requires […]