How to Use ray tracing in a Sentence
ray tracing
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Both OSes now support ray tracing for more lifelike lighting in games.
—PC Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
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Similar to the ray tracing situation, games must be PS5 Pro Enhanced to use PSSR.
—Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 27 Apr. 2026
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That said, in the more demanding runs of Cyberpunk 2077, where the resolution was higher, and features like ray tracing were cranked up, the Mac Studio still came out on top.
—Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
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The growth is also being driven by incredible innovations, including Nvidia GeForce chips with real-time ray tracing capabilities and artificial intelligence capabilities.
—Nish Acharya, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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Each of these CUs houses 64 shaders, four texture mapping units (TMUs), two rasterization operation processors (ROPs), one ray tracing (RT) accelerator, and one AI accelerator.
—Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PC Magazine, 26 Sep. 2026
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Rounding out the set, 3DMark’s Solar Bay examines ray-tracing performance at 1440p, using dynamic reflections and global illumination effects to push Apple’s GPU and Metal ray tracing capabilities to their limits.
—PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025
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