Power VR - GR6500 Realtime Ray Tracing

[colinmcr]

Came across this story and thought to share. Its proof of concept atm, not consumer orientated.

" The company claimed that its ray tracing architecture needs 100 times less power compared to desktop GPUs from AMD or Nvidia, quoting that real-time ray tracing is possible within just 5-10 watts."

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/imagination-powervr-gr6500-raytracing-gpu,29614.html#xtor=RSS-998

 

[Orangey]

Surely if it actually worked they would use it themselves? Rather than license it.

 

[bru]

Is it a bird
Is it a plane

No its Pottsey.....incoming.

 

[colinmcr]

If anyones interested.

http://blog.imgtec.com/multimedia/award-winning-powervr-gr6500-ray-tracing-gpu-tapes-out

 

[Pottsey]

Surely if it actually worked they would use it themselves? Rather than license it.

The company is setup very different from AMD or NVidia. They don't normally make products themselves but license out the technology to other company's to use.

Something like 80% of the company works on technology with the aim to license it.