Xbox Series X Ray Tracing. The ray-tracing hardware support on the Xbox Series X contains a texture address unit, cache processor, filter pipeline and the ray intersection engine. Join Alex Battaglia and John Linneman for a much closer look at the Minecraft DXR.
One sound like the ray-tracing is being done by ray-tracing hardware & the other sound like there is changes in the GPU to help with ray-tracing.
Will Tuttle of the Xbox Wire witnessed ray tracing on the Xbox Series X first-hand with Minecraft. "With ray tracing on, water was now fully transparent and allowed light from the moon to pass through it to the player underneath and realistically reflect off the seaweed swaying in the current," Tuttle said.
Speaking in a recent podcast, director of Xbox program management Jason Ronald revealed that the Xbox Series X will. 'With the introduction of hardware accelerated ray-tracing with the Xbox Series X, we're actually able to enable a whole new set of scenarios, whether that's more realistic lighting, better reflections, we can even use it for things like spatial audio and have ray traced audio,' explained Ronald. It's also unclear what other ray tracing compatible games like Control and Metro Exodus will look like with on the Xbox Series X. Ray tracing — specifically, real-time ray tracing — is the latest buzz phrase in gaming graphics What is ray tracing, and how does it work?