Path Tracing vs Ray Tracing EXPLAINED in 2 Minutes!

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00:00 Intro
00:13 Ray Tracing
00:52 Path Tracing
01:24 Difference in these two?
01:45 End Screen

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[orcu]

Path tracing uses ray tracing as its foundational technique but enhances it by incorporating multiple rays and more sophisticated algorithms to simulate a broader range of lighting effects. So, one is the extension of the other.

[Nameer]

"Path tracing is mostly used in movies and cinematics"
Cyberpunk 2077: Hold my beer

[victormonaco]

Do people really expect a full in depth explanation in a 2 minutes video? Like, it's clearly not the proposition, which is to give a brief overall explanation, therefore, the video is amazing and fulfill it's purpose. Good work :)

[ekklesiast]

Ray tracing: "traces individual rays of lights".
Path tracing: "follows many rays".
That's not very helpful. Does that mean multiple rays per each pixel or?

[adorp]

What is this video? AI slop?
It showed nothing useful.

[AgentSmith]

Path tracing is ray tracing, but ray tracing isn't path tracing. I just turn it off in video games, it destroys performance and the upscaling tech is flawed.

[Whitehat]

Meanwhile cdkproject with path tracing 💀

[mrwoodcat]

imagine living in a day where ray tracing is just a common rendering method.. soon.

[HikariSakai]

Path Tracing also looks better and doesn't have the shitty muddyness and ghosting that raytracing has, its practically perfect.
so whats the downside?
well its extremely performance heavy and makes games run like ass but my god does it look good af.

[UnchartedWorlds]

this video only 4 months old but regarding real-time path tracing it didn't age that well

[zoltankis]

This explanation is actually not correct. Ray tracing is a "brute force" technique to generate image by simulating light, and path tracing is a way of ray tracing which is much more efficient even by using more rays in the scene. Judgigng by the accuracy, ray tracing is far better but also cost much more hardware ressources. If you are only thinking of ray tracing you have seen in games in the last years, these RT features are not fully fledged ray tracing, but only used in specific rendering tasks (shadows, ambient occlusion, global illumination outdoors, reflections) and NOT globally. It is not possible to completely ray trace a modern video game in real time with the hardware we have today. And here comes path tracing in the picture. It is a less accurate, but therefore a less ressource hungry method of getting near to globally ray traced real time graphics. The data you are losing in this alternative process does not have such a big impact on the image quality, which combined with denoisers and AI frame reconstruction gives really good results.

Comming to the point, global ray tracing for itself is a superior techique to path tracing, but path tracing gives the ability to have an identical effect much more efficient.

[manusilentgaming]

the point is both are only for rich people not for poor people like me

[joancito]

Why aren't both just a visual technique?

[RezwanRahmanraymond]

Well unreal engine

"Yes it stutters"

[mrdeath]

bro does full ray tracing mean path tracing, like that used in the game black myth wokung ?

[mrkma]

Does RDR2 have ray tracing?
RDR2 does not have Ray tracing lmfao. Only has DLSS. It does have really excellent lighting!2 jan. 2025

[Apocalyptic]

Nvidia is way ahead of AMD and INTEL in destroying gaming industry

[supta]

This is feature much hate for amd fanboys😂😂

[thatguy]

Wow, at least learn to prepare your script properly for AI to read it. Your bullet points are garbage. F tier content, provides no real information.