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NVIDIA Launches The World's First Interactive Ray Tracing Engine
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Nvidia's marketing department sure love the letter X. I doubt this will improve much though as developers are rushing games out unfinished and buggy, with very pretty graphics which still don't push the limits of current technology as they end up unoptimised (see GTA4) and slow.
I would rather them make sure their DirectX11 drivers are astonishingly good rather than design a raytracer we really don't need yet.
I would rather them make sure their DirectX11 drivers are astonishingly good rather than design a raytracer we really don't need yet.
I don't understandWhat is a ray tracer.
Rroff explained rather well, it's essentially the thing they use at Pixar/Dreamworks to create shadows on everything and simulate everything, but they do it in the CPU which is very slow. Nvidia is trying to speed it up by moving it to the massively parallel shaders of a GPU.
Its will run on other GPUs than just NV i take it ?.
If it's for CUDA then, it's only for Nvidia cards. I doubt it will see widespread usage however so I wouldn't worry about it.
On a CPU its VERY slow - best I've managed personally is 5fps at 640x480 and that was just the barest of lighting effects...
With a decent hardware implementation we could have pixar quality visuals in games with a unified lighting system that affects everything the same, etc.
Currently in most video games you have a variety patch work of shadow systems used, leading to many inconsistancies and artifacts such as shadows bleeding through walls/floors, not affecting some objects, static and dynamic shadows conflicting, etc.
With a decent hardware implementation we could have pixar quality visuals in games with a unified lighting system that affects everything the same, etc.
Currently in most video games you have a variety patch work of shadow systems used, leading to many inconsistancies and artifacts such as shadows bleeding through walls/floors, not affecting some objects, static and dynamic shadows conflicting, etc.
Roff was that on a E6600? Just wondering what an OC'd i7 would be able to do, maybe 10-12FPS
As it happens yeah it was on the E6600... it was only single threaded tho - so could prolly double that with threading... in theory that would give just about playable fps on an i7 tying up all the cores... but that was just basic shadows not a full on ray tracing engine.
If I had a penny....
http://software.intel.com/en-us/videos/ray-tracing-demo-explained/ Intel are the daddys of ray tracing. Nvidia are nothing but monkeys swinging from the fashionable branches of the ray tracing tree.
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intel might be the "daddy" of ray tracing - but they will never get anywhere in the gaming world - they don't produce drivers that have either the level of feature richness or the update frequency to support new titles...
I agree wush once this becomes more common we'll see it plastered on every possible corner til people are sick of it :S
I agree wush once this becomes more common we'll see it plastered on every possible corner til people are sick of it :S
Intel might do bad things to nvidia over the next two years.
Yeah, I'm sure once the nvidia marketing team are finished with ray tracing it will be just another sticker on a box.
* NVIDIA® OptiX™ engine for real-time ray tracing
* NVIDIA® SceniX™ engine for managing 3D data and scenes
* NVIDIA® CompleX™ engine for scaling performance across multiple GPUs
* NVIDIA® PhysX® 64-bit engine for real-time, hyper-realistic physical and environmental effects
might... but they'll need to light a fire under their driver team first.