Are We Wrong About Ray Tracing?

About this episode

The episode discusses the claims about Nvidia's ray tracing technology and its marketing, alongside personal updates from the hosts.

Episode 103: Some people got upset that we claimed Nvidia didn't deliver on their promised ray tracing future. So we discuss that, the RTX 20 series, how ray tracing was marketed, and whether we think it's lived up to the original hype CHAPTERS 00:00 - Chat About Ray Tracing 55:12 - Updates From Our Boring Lives SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Audio: https://shows.acast.com/the-hardware-unboxed-podcast Video: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqT8Vb3jweH6_tj2SarErfw SUPPORT US DIRECTLY Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hardwareunboxed LINKS YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Hardwareunboxed/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HardwareUnboxed Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/hardwareunboxed.bsky.social Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Hardware Unboxed

Topics covered

• ray tracing
• Nvidia
• RTX 20 series
• gaming technology
• marketing hype

Keywords

• ray tracing
• Nvidia
• RTX 20 series
• gaming
• technology
• marketing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nvidia

Products: RTX 20 series

Books & works: Are We Wrong About Ray Tracing?

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