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Nvidia’s new RTX line of graphics cards is coming soon, and this time around they’re offering more than just the typical performance boost over the previous generation. The RTX series GPUs are the first consumer GPUs that are capable of performing real-time ray tracing, which is a pretty awesome advancement in 3D graphics as it will, in theory, allow games to look more realistic than ever before. Let’s take a look at what this technology actually is, why you should care, and why it’s still pretty hard to for even this new hardware to pull it off.
Source: IGN.com What is Ray Tracing, and Should You Care?