Ray tracing and path tracing might sound like similar terms, and in a way they are, but the way they work and the results they produce are completely different.

In that video, they ran BotW at 8K with Revolvere's REVO ReShade REDUX mod, which added Pascal Glicher's Screen-Space Ray Traced Global Illumination shader for some software-based screen-space ray ...

GTA V is a great looking game with mods applied but with ray tracing shaders it looks out of this world -- the lighting effects are actually bloody impressive. At the 2:00 mark the reflections on ...

Gears 5 on Xbox Series X runs with improved contact shadows, as well as ray traced screen-space global illumination, using a software-based solution. All the cutscenes also run in 60fps on Xbox ...

McDonald also found that with the ray tracing enabled, the game still uses screen space reflections in water, which means the geometry isn't rendered twice so it isn't too intensive performance wise.

Cyberpunk 2077 will have four different real-time ray tracing effects at launch, as well as Nvidia's impressive performane-boosting DLSS 2.0 technology. By Brad Chacos Jun 25, 2020 2:34 pm PDT ...