Nvidia shares first screenshots of Doom: The Dark Ages with path tracing upgrade, coming soon
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With Doom: The Dark Ages launching so close to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060, it isn't surprising that Nvidia is using this opportunity to promote the new features available on the RTX 50 series of graphics cards. The latest is an update that will make the graphics for Doom: The Dark Ages even more vibrant.
Doom: The Dark Ages arrived with day-one support for DLSS 4 (Transformer model) with Multi Frame Generation. The game also supports ray tracing reflections, global illumination, and Reflex. In June, Nvidia plans to update the game will be updated to support path tracing and DLSS 3.5 ray reconstruction.
Doom: The Dark Ages gets path tracing in June
In short, path tracing is a more complex form of ray tracing that can account for indirect lighting and global illumination. While this will improve the appearance of reflections, it generally comes at a cost. However, to combat that, Nvidia claims that DLSS 4 delivers up to seven times the performance compared to DLSS off. The accompanying screenshots below show far clearer and more accurate reflections in the water, making the world of Doom: The Dark Ages much more immersive.
As part of its claim of 100+ FPS in “your favorite games,” Nvidia says the RTX 5060 will be capable of playing Doom: The Dark Ages on maximum settings at 1080p with ray tracing enabled, and can pull up to 233 FPS. Not bad for an 8GB VRAM graphics card with an MSRP of $299.
The RTX 5060 uses the same GB206 silicon as its ‘big brother' RTX 5060 Ti, but has 3,840 CUDA cores and 8GB of 128-bit GDDR7 memory. It is planned to be available for both desktops and laptops, with RTX 5060 laptops expected to be priced around the $1,100 mark. It releases today, May 19, and you can check out where to buy one here.
Nvidia has also announced that support for DLSS 4 is now available for over 125 games and applications, with more planned to be added. Team Green also added that ‘Portal RTX' now has a feature update, enabling new features such as DLSS 4 and RTX neural radiance cache.
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