# #RayTracing in the news

October 26, 2026 at 08:15 PM

> NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing 1.9.0 Boosts Performance · NVIDIA Launches RTX Kit v2026.3 and Mega Geometry · AMD Unveils Real-Time Ray Tracing Breakthrough

[NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing 1.9.0 Boosts Performance](<https://hardwarebrief.com/article/nvidia-rtx-path-tracing-1-9-0-boosts-performance-7d125c69>)
*October 26, 2026 at 08:15 PM* - NVIDIA releases RTXPT 1.9.0 on GitHub, delivering a 20% performance increase and adding support for Windows on ARM64 and CMake 4.1.

[NVIDIA Launches RTX Kit v2026.3 and Mega Geometry](<https://hardwarebrief.com/article/nvidia-launches-rtx-kit-v2026-3-and-mega-geometry-fd5b6c05>)
*September 24, 2026 at 10:10 AM* - NVIDIA updates SDKs with high-density geometry and neural texture support, targeting future DXR 2.0 standards and RTX Spark PC devices.

[AMD Unveils Real-Time Ray Tracing Breakthrough](<https://hardwarebrief.com/article/amd-unveils-real-time-ray-tracing-breakthrough-8c8c8c1e>)
*September 21, 2026 at 04:33 PM* - AMD's new tetrahedral cage technique enables 60 FPS ray tracing for 500 million triangles while slashing BVH memory usage by 98 percent.