MANUFACTURER NVIDIA CLOCK SPEED 1515MHZ
PC gaming has long been at the cuttingedge of graphics technology, but the rate at which visual fidelity increases has been flattening over the last decade. Back in the ’90s, just four years took you from the 2.5D hellscape of Doom to the fully 3D, hardwareaccelerated sci-fi nightmare of Quake 2. Then it all went quiet.
Which is why the advent of ray tracing in 2018 felt like such a big deal. Here was a technology that seemed a genuine leap forward: true, pathtraced real-time lighting that accurately simulates how light bounces off surfaces to create shadows, reflections, and refractions. Games had become very good at faking these things, but here was a technology that did it for real.