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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 benchmarked on the 30 most demanding PC games

NVIDIA has just lifted the review embargo for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. The RTX 4090 is the flagship GPU from the green team, and we’ve decided to benchmark it in 4K on the 30 most demanding PC games. Can this new graphics card offer smooth 4K gaming performance? Time to find out. Continue reading NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 benchmarked on the 30 most demanding PC games

Quake 2 RTX Update 1.5 adds support for new Vulkan extension, improves performance

NVIDIA and id Software have released a new update for Quake 2 RTX. According to the teams, Patch 1.5 adds support for ray tracing using the `VK_KHR_ray_query` extension API. This new extension promises to improve performance and according to some early reports, it really does. Continue reading Quake 2 RTX Update 1.5 adds support for new Vulkan extension, improves performance

Quake 2 RTX Patch 1.4.0 released, adds support for platform-agnostic Vulkan Ray Tracing

NVIDIA has released a new update for Quake 2 RTX that adds support for platform-agnostic Vulkan Ray Tracing. This basically means that Quake 2 RTX is no longer locked on NVIDIA’s hardware. Instead, this fully path-traced game can now run on all GPUs that support the latest Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions. Continue reading Quake 2 RTX Patch 1.4.0 released, adds support for platform-agnostic Vulkan Ray Tracing