Remember when Nvidia positioned its RTX Series of gaming GPUs as the only game in town for ray tracing? It will also be enabled on newer GTX cards like the GTX 1060 Ti. The ray tracing capabilities arrive via Microsoft's DXR (DirectX Ray Tracing) technology. Before you get too excited about your current GTX cards suddenly being gifted with the magic of ray tracing, though, there are some caveats. And more mindshare will lead to faster adoption of ray tracing in our future games.

Source: Forbes March 19, 2019 09:00 UTC