graphics
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Grand Theft Auto Looks Frighteningly Photorealistic With This Machine Learning Technique
As powerful as video game consoles have become, even the most graphically stunning video games don’t look like realistic, real-world footage, which is arguably the ultimate goal. But researchers at Intel Labs may have found a shortcut by applying machine learning techniques to rendered footage from a console that takes it from beautiful to photorealistic.
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This is the Ray Tracing We’ve Been Waiting For
Today, Nvidia showed us the true promise and vision of ray tracing — making virtual environments look as real as possible based on how light is cast and reflected off surfaces and objects. It’s not a new concept. Animation studios like Pixar have been working with ray traced effects for years. But it’s always been…
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AMD’s Next Big Graphics Card Sure Sounds Like It Will Be Cheap And Powerful
While there’s no pricing available right now, AMD’s new Radeon RX 5500 graphics card certainly sounds like it will be both cheap and powerful. Which isn’t a shock — AMD’s modus operandi at this point is releasing products just a little more powerful than the competition but a whole lot less expensive. But if we…
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Intel Says Its GPUs To Rival AMD And Nvidia Will Be Here By 2020
Intel has stopped dancing around the issue and confirmed in a tweet, as noted by Engadget, that it will be making discrete GPUs and that they will be here by 2020.