What is Ray Tracing in PS5? List of PS5 games that support Ray Tracing

Sony has officially released PlayStation 5 in several parts of world including rth America, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. It is clearly one of most powerful gaming consoles that comes with an 8-core 3.5 GHz AMD Zen 2 processor, along with a 10.3 teraflop AMD RDNA 2 graphics, among or impressive specifications. While next-generation console comes with plenty of upgrades over its predecessor, one of highlighting features is its ray-tracing rendering support. But what does ray tracing do and how it actually works? Let's find out.

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What is Ray Tracing in PS5?

Ray tracing is a powerful rendering technique that plays a major part in creating incredibly realistic lighting effects to video games. It essentially casts out and calculates linear rays of lighting between player's eye and various light sources present in game. This is rendered in real-time as rays bounce off  different surfaces that it hits.

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Is Ray Tracing worth it?

ray-tracing techlogy has been used only on PCs; however, it has finally arrived on PlayStation 5 consoles. With ray-tracing support, console games can produce far better graphics than what was seen on earlier gaming consoles. This is especially in terms of more realistic lighting, while also rendering more accuracy with shadows and reflections. This obviously makes it one of biggest features on gaming console. Interestingly, ray-tracing support is also available on Xbox Series X / Series S consoles which clearly shows its worth. 

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PS5 games that support ray tracing

Here is a list of all PS5 games that support ray tracing:

• Astro's Playroom
• Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
• Demon's Souls
• Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition
• Fortnite
• Maneater
• Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales
• NBA 2K21
• Observer: System Redux
• RIDE 4
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2
• Watch Dogs: Legion

 Please te that some of video games on above list are yet to be released.

PlayStation 5 was launched in certain parts of world on vember 12; however, it will be released in rest of world on vember 19. Sony is yet to confirm an official release date for Indian market.

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