Forget ray tracing - Nvidia calls path tracing one of the "largest breakthroughs for real-time graphics in many years"
That's quite the claim

Nvidia has debuted a look at path tracing technology, and the results🧔 look stunning.
Just below, you can see the beginnings of a tweet thread taking Twitter user inside Nvidia's brand new path tracing technology for real-time results. There's nearly ten examples of path tracing in acti𒁏on throughout the Twitter thread, which sure manage to make Nvidia's new technology look absolutely spellbinding.
(1/10) Slides + Recording of ꦜPetrik Clarberg’s GDC/GTC real-time path tracing research talk are now available online #GDC2022 #GTC22//t.🉐co/CNAlWkIwlP pic.twitter.com/lhypEZAoTx
In short, path tracing is a big step up froꦗm ray tracing technology now used with PC and console games. We still think of ray tracing as being the pinnacle of graphical output right now across games, but what Nvidia is basically seeking to do with path tracing is turn everything up to 11.
As for when we could actually expect to see real-time path tracing out in the wild, it's anyone's guess. Nvidia is only just introducing the technology to the world for the very first time, so it's not as if deve🌼lopers are realistically goi⛄ng to have this functioning in games within the next few years. If you're really eager to learn more about path tracing in greater detail, head over to for a complete explainer.
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