Ray Tracing To Debut in DirectX 11

crazyeyes writes "This is breaking news. Microsoft has not only decided to support ray tracing in DirectX 11, but they will also be basing it on Intel's x86 ray-tracing technology and get this ... it will be out by the end of the year! In this article, we will examine what ray tracing is all about and why it would be superior to the current raster-based technology. As for performance, well, let Intel dazzle you with some numbers. Here's a quote from the article: 'You need not worry about your old raster-based DirectX 10 or older games or graphics cards. DirectX 11 will continue to support rasterization. It just includes support for ray-tracing as well. There will be two DirectX 11 modes, based on support by the application and the hardware.'"

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Take it somewhere else, nutjob.

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GNU/Linux has had realtime ray tracing for a year now, even though it seems like an obvious joke when announced for Windows. That's something people would like to know and some good information that can come out of this bad joke.

Take your crazy Twitter hate and modpoint games someplace else. They are getting in the way of the conversation here.