NVIDIA Ray Tracing

Welcome to the NVIDIA Ray Tracing Documentation website where you can explore the latest information about NVIDIA ray tracing software.

NVAPI is NVIDIA's core software development kit that allows direct access to NVIDIA GPUs and drivers on all windows platforms. NVAPI provides support for categories of operations that range beyond the scope of those found in familiar graphics APIs such as DirectX and OpenGL.

NVIDIA DLSS is a new and improved deep learning neural network that boosts frame rates and generates beautiful, sharp images for your games.

An application framework for achieving optimal ray tracing performance on the GPU.

The NVIDIA Real-Time Denoisers (NRD) are a spatio-temporal API agnostic denoising library that’s designed to work with low ray per pixel signals. It uses input signals and environmental conditions to deliver results comparable to ground truth images.