This article is part of the Electronics History series: The Graphics Chip Chronicles. ATI had been experimenting with the concepts of a unified shader for several years leading up to its acquisition ...

AMD says it's about to adopt a "brand-new rendering approach" when it comes to ray tracing, and specifically path tracing, in the latest games, thanks to a new dedicated hardware block in its next-gen ...

Microsoft has officially added Shader Execution Reordering (SER) to DirectX 12 in the Agility SDK 1.619 release, making it a standard feature in Shader Model 6.9. The technology, which reorders ...

With This Microsoft Update, Game Devs Could Have New Trick for Bolstering FPS With Shader Execution Reordering, some Intel and Nvidia GPUs deliver up to 90% greater FPS in a specific path-tracing ...