as was the case with DXR 1.0 in fall 2018 and DXR 1.1 two years later. Since ray tracing in Windows games can still significantly reduce frame rates compared to pure rasterization processes ...

DirectX Raytracing (DXR) 1.2 is set to bring a "game-changing" boost to performance in games with ray-tracing enabled. This is excellent news as ray-tracing is one of the most cutting-edge and ...

For this reason, Microsoft has promised to improve Ray tracing performance on PCs using software. The Windows OS maker says its next version of DirectX Raytracing (DXR) 1.2 will bring a major ...

Microsoft unveiled its DirectX Raytracing (DXR) 1.2 update. This, claims Microsoft, will improve performance while keeping visual fidelity high. Notably, some titles have ray tracing as a ...

Microsoft has unveiled DirectX Raytracing 1.2 (DXR 1.2) at GDC 2025, introducing two major innovations designed to address key ray tracing performance bottlenecks: Opacity Micromaps (OMM ...

Microsoft says DXR 1.2 offers up to a 2.3x performance boost in ray tracing games. DXR 1.2 includes shader execution reordering and opacity micromaps. These features orginally debuted with Nvidia ...

DXR 1.2 introduces two revolutionary technologies ... et des shaders afin d'obtenir des gains substantielles en Ray Tracing et Path Tracing. With help on stage from our partners at Intel, AMD ...

Lastly, the Port Royal test uses DirectX Ray Tracing (DXR) along with traditional rasterization techniques to illuminate a scene... DXR hardware is a requirement for this test, and it'll more ...

Ray tracing takes centrestage ... we continue and ray trace in world space. These are DXR rays, and they traverse the acceleration structure (BVH) until they hit or miss. All the hits are then ...

At GDC 2025, Microsoft announced major updates to ray tracing in Windows with the introduction of DirectX Raytracing (DXR) 1.2. The update promises improved image quality and performance, thanks to ...

The standout number here is the 2.3x performance jump in path-traced games using DXR 1.2 opacity micromaps. Path tracing is a more intensive and complex version of ray tracing, and it ...