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iPhone 16 Has Hardware-Accelerated Ray Tracing And Native Support For AAA Games [Video]

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Apple introduced the iPhone 16 on September 9, promising a souped-up five-core GPU that can support hardware-accelerated ray tracing and play AAA games previously only available on the iPhone 15 Pro. Here’s what we know so far about the next iPhone’s gaming capabilities.

While Apple’s announcement for the iPhone 16 has a strong focus on generative AI, it also showed off how the device’s five-core GPU will deliver higher performance for more demanding games. Thanks to the new A18 GPU, the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus can now support hardware-accelerated ray tracing, which Apple says can model light with up to five times higher frame rates than software-based ray tracing.

Both iPhone 16 models will be able to support AAA titles previously only available on the higher-powered iPhone 15 Pro, including Resident Evil 7: …

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