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RTX and the Return of Ray Tracing to Real-Time Graphics

Microsoft's DXR API and NVIDIA's 2018 Turing/RTX hardware made ray queries a practical part of real-time game rendering, reviving a decades-old algorithm inside hybrid rasterization pipelines.

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