• Ray-tracing hardware is special-purpose computer hardware designed for accelerating ray tracing calculations. The problem of rendering 3D graphics can...
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    fidelity, ray tracing-based rendering techniques, such as ray casting, recursive ray tracing, distribution ray tracing, photon mapping and path tracing, are...
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    mainstream PCs for gaming. Nvidia RTX features hardware-enabled real-time ray tracing. Historically, ray tracing had been reserved to non-real time applications...
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    and Hanrahan, P, "Ray Tracing on Programmable Graphics Hardware", Proc. SIGGRAPH 2002, 703 – 712. See also Purcell, T, Ray tracing on a stream processor...
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  • Sphere tracing, the function estimates a distance to step next. Ray marching is also used in physics simulations as an alternative to ray tracing where...
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  • traversal can further accelerate ray-tracing. Currently, real-time ray tracing is available on multiple platforms. Hardware implementation of BVH is one of...
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    Hardware acceleration is the use of computer hardware designed to perform specific functions more efficiently when compared to software running on a general-purpose...
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    called distributed ray tracing, or distribution ray tracing because it samples rays from probability distributions. Distribution ray tracing can also render...
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    featuring a faster GPU, improved ray tracing, and introducing an AI-driven upscaling technology. The PlayStation 5's main hardware features include a solid-state...
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    microarchitecture is focused on graphics performance and supports hardware-accelerated ray tracing, DisplayPort 2.0, XeSS or supersampling based on neural networks...
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  • (Baseband processor), for digital radio connectivity Ray Processing Unit, component of ray-tracing hardware Refrigerant Pumping Unit Remote pickup unit, a radio...
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    Graphics processing unit (category Graphics hardware)
    RX 6000 series, its RDNA 2 graphics cards with support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing. The product series, launched in late 2020, consisted of the...
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    generation of RTX cards, the first in the industry to implement hardware-enabled real-time ray tracing in a consumer product. In a departure from Nvidia's usual...
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  • Tempest Engine and dedicated ray tracing hardware to support advanced haptic feedback, 3D spatial audio and real-time ray tracing effects. The PlayStation...
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    and feature Nvidia RTX's third-generation RT cores for hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing, and fourth-generation deep-learning-focused Tensor Cores...
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    and reflections system that leverages software as well as hardware accelerated ray tracing. The source code for Unreal Engine 5 is available on GitHub...
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    ("Tensor cores") and dedicated ray tracing processors ("RT cores"). Turing leverages DXR, OptiX, and Vulkan for access to ray tracing. In February 2019, Nvidia...
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  • advantage of the console's increased processing power, dedicated ray-tracing hardware, custom solid-state drive storage, Tempest Engine and DualSense controller...
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    RDNA 2 (section Ray tracing)
    Real-time hardware accelerated ray tracing is a new feature for RDNA 2 which is handled by a dedicated ray accelerator inside each CU. Ray tracing on RDNA...
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  • advantage of the console's increased processing power, dedicated ray-tracing hardware, custom solid-state drive storage, Tempest Engine, and DualSense...
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    Quadro RTX/RTX series GPUs have tensor cores and hardware support for realtime ray tracing Hardware accelerated video encoding (via NVENC) and decoding...
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    RDNA 3 (section Ray tracing)
    second generation ray-tracing accelerators. Each Compute Unit contains one ray tracing accelerator. The overall number of ray tracing accelerators is increased...
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    Shader (redirect from Ray tracing shader)
    Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs shipping in Q1 2022 will support mesh shaders. Ray tracing shaders are supported by Microsoft via DirectX Raytracing, by Khronos...
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    have solid-state drives to reduce loading times, support for hardware-accelerated ray-tracing and spatial audio, the ability to convert games to high-dynamic-range...
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  • DirectX Raytracing (category Ray tracing (graphics))
    (DXR) is a feature introduced in Microsoft's DirectX 12 that implements ray tracing, for video graphic rendering. DXR was released with the Windows 10 October...
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  • binned models). The SoC also includes a 10-core GPU (with hardware-accelerated ray tracing, dynamic caching, and mesh shading introduced with the M3)...
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  • integrates a new Apple-designed five-core GPU, now adding hardware accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading support to the non-Pro lineup. Apple claims...
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  • Caustic Graphics (category Defunct computer hardware companies)
    Technologies. The Caustic ray tracing hardware was not a replacement for existing rasterisation GPUs, but rather added several new hardware functions to increase...
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    graphics include user interface design, sprite graphics, rendering, ray tracing, geometry processing, computer animation, vector graphics, 3D modeling...
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    implementation could use texturing hardware to draw the aligned slices in the off-screen buffer. The technique of volume ray casting can be derived directly...
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