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The Vulkan Ray Tracing Position Fetch extension adds a way to directly retrieve vertex positions and attributes at ray-hit, with SPIR-V and GLSL support, enabling efficient access without duplicating geometry data and aiding accurate shadow ray origins.

Whitepapers/pt_performance_whitepaper at main · NVIDIA-RTX/Whitepapers · GitHub

The document outlines how real-time path tracing in games balances a limited ray budget with frame-time constraints, using adaptive ray allocation, radiance caching, and feature fallbacks. It emphasizes integrating ray tracing with rasterization, profiling per platform, and focusing on the final denoised, upscaled image rather than idealized accuracy.

Release DLSS5ForUE5 v0.6.1 · praveenkumarappu/DLSS5ForUE5 · GitHub

DLSS5ForUE5 v0.6.1 adds Neural Rendering improvements for Unreal Engine, including updated NVIDIA runtime, maintainer-approved NR features for UE 5.6/5.8, better motion guidance and highlight handling, and editor stability tweaks; Windows builds for 5.5–5.8 are provided, with PR #5 still open for additional changes.

The new Nvidia driver freed gamers from long shader compilation in Modern Warfare 4 and Gears of War: E-Day, and also reduced RAM usage in these games by 7-8 GB - Shazoo

Translated title. Original: Новый драйвер Nvidia избавил геймеров от долгой компиляции шейдеров в Modern Warfare 4 и Gears of War: E-Day, а также снизил потребление ОЗУ в этих играх на 7-8 ГБ - Shazoo

Nvidia’s GeForce driver adds Advanced Shader Delivery support for selected games, enabling pre-compilation of shaders to reduce loading times and RAM usage, with ASD content delivered via the Xbox PC app and supported on RTX 20–50 series GPUs; the feature relies on cloud-based shader delivery rather than local compilation.

[2611.05593] GaussianRenderFormer: Transformer-based Rendering of 3D Gaussian Splats

GaussianRenderFormer is a transformer that renders 3D Gaussian splats directly from Gaussians and a camera, without a rasterizer. It uses a view-independent encoder for Gaussians and a view-dependent decoder that attends to these tokens to generate pixels, achieving strong PSNR on unseen data but with a gap to rasterization; footprints in the view decoder may be the bottleneck, and under-training could explain the remaining performance gap.

Microsoft introduces DirectX ray-tracing preview for more efficient scene updates · Digg

Microsoft released a DirectX Raytracing developer preview with clustered geometry, partitioned top-level acceleration structures (PTLAS), and a GPU-driven API to improve building and updating ray-tracing data; the update aims to optimize updates by targeting changed regions while retaining existing acceleration structures.

New DLSS Ray Reconstruction Now Available on AMD GPUs – HWCompass.id

Translated title. Original: Mod DLSS Ray Reconstruction Kini Hadir di GPU AMD – HWCompass.id

A mod adds NVIDIA DLSS Ray Reconstruction to AMD GPUs (RDNA 3/4) via a HIP kernel, enabling DLSS features on Radeon hardware with experimental RDNA 2 support, and requires user DLLs and NeuralHub for installation; it supports up to 4X multi-frame generation and has been tested on a Radeon RX 9070 XT in Cyberpunk 2077 with Windows 11 and specific driver requirements.

Advanced Shader Delivery: Less shader stutter on PC?

Translated title. Original: Advanced Shader Delivery: Weniger Shader-Stutter am PC?

The PCGH team explains Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD), which moves shader compilation from local hardware to the cloud to reduce shader stutter. It notes collaboration between AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and Microsoft, and invites reader comments on the potential impact.

News. GECID.com.

Translated title. Original: Новини. GECID.com.

NVIDIA released RTX Path Tracing 1.9.0, a test tool for configuring realistic lighting in games, delivering ~20% faster frame processing without image quality loss, by better GPU load distribution and parallel DLSS light rendering, with support for up to two million light sources and ARM Windows systems.

Nvidia Releases Driver 621.01 for Gaming Performance – HWCompass.id

Translated title. Original: Nvidia Rilis Driver 621.01 untuk Performa Gaming – HWCompass.id

Nvidia launches driver 621.01 WHQL with Advanced Shader Delivery, moving shader compilation to the cloud to cut startup wait times and save RAM, supporting RTX 20–50 GPUs; users get precompiled shaders via Xbox PC or Microsoft Store, with notable RAM reduction in Gears of War: E-Day.