Minecraft’s latest Java Edition test build is not just about cozy camps and menu tweaks. Minecraft 26.3 Snapshot 6 drops a new terrain rendering system on supported rigs, expands world creation tools, ...

A programmer has built a complete software rendering engine in roughly 500 lines of C++ code, and the project is picking up steam online as a teaching tool that strips 3D graphics down to its bones.

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Ray tracing technology is changing how modern games render light by simulating how rays travel, bounce, and interact with objects in a virtual environment. This allows graphics rendering to produce ...

Apple has signed a driver for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs connected to Apple Silicon but there are some big caveats, and it won't improve your graphics. Here's what they're for. When Apple announced the use ...

During NVIDIA's GTC 2026 keynote, CEO Jensen Huang gave attendees a sneak-peek at DLSS 5 leveraging neural rendering technology, with an array of brief clips of Resident Evil Requiem, Hogwarts Legacy, ...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used the company’s keynote at Nvidia GTC on Monday to introduce DLSS 5, a new version of the chipmaker’s AI graphics tech designed to make video games more realistic while ...

What innovations should a new generation of video games bring with it? Bigger worlds? Faster load times? GPU maker Nvidia has an answer that I bet you've never thought of: What if you paid thousands ...

Meta said its multiyear deal with AMD involves deploying up to 6 gigawatts of the company's graphics processing units for AI data centers. Last week, Meta committed to using millions of Nvidia's ...

After more than 16 years, Minecraft: Java Edition is finally moving away from the aging OpenGL graphics system and upgrading to Vulkan, a modern multi-threaded rendering API. The change, announced by ...

Acer isn’t the only company that introduced a new laptop at CES that has a touchpad so large that the company figured you might want to use it as a graphics tablet. Like the new Acer Swift 16, the ...