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Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

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To achieve high efficiency with ray tracing, you must build a pipeline that scales well at every stage. To achieve high efficiency with ray tracing, you must build a pipeline that scales well at every stage. For ray tracing, visibility can be estimated directly based on the number of rays hitting each object.

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Ray Tracing Updates Available through NVIDIA SDKs and the NVIDIA Branch of Unreal Engine

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Today, developers can access the latest versions of RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI), RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI), NVIDIA Real-Time Denoisers (NRD), and OptiX Ray Tracing Engine (OptiX). We’ve also done a significant code and API refactor and expanded RTXGI’s footprint with added support to Linux, Vulkan, and Arm platforms.

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Powerful Shader Insights: Using Shader Debug Info with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics

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As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a. As ray tracing becomes the predominant rendering technique in modern game engines, a single GPU RayGen shader can now perform most of the light simulation of a frame.

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NVIDIA Rolls Out New Drivers for Vulkan Ray Tracing, Upgrades Quake II RTX

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Vulkan is the industry’s first open, cross-vendor standard ray tracing API, enabling portable ray tracing acceleration across diverse platforms. Vulkan is the industry’s first open, cross-vendor standard ray tracing API, enabling portable ray tracing acceleration across diverse platforms.

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Ultra-Realism Made Accessible with NVIDIA AI and Path Tracing Technologies

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Integration of real-time path tracing technology simplified Real-time ray tracing in games was made possible with the introduction of RT cores in the NVIDIA Turing architecture. Released at GDC 2023, the NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing SDK is available to developers everywhere. Watch the demo video to learn more. Video 2.

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Ask Me Anything Series: NVIDIA Experts Answer Your Questions Live

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Attendees can get tips on incorporating real-time rendering across their projects from the editors of Ray Tracing Gems II : Adam Marrs is a principal engineer in the Game Engines and Core Technology group at NVIDIA. in computer science and has shipped graphics code in various AAA games and commercial game engines.

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Improve Shader Performance and In-Game Frame Rates with Shader Execution Reordering 

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SER is a performance optimization that unlocks the potential for better ray and memory coherency in ray tracing shaders and thus increased shading efficiency. Background Shading divergence is a long-standing problem in ray tracing. You do not have to allocate or bind a resource for this.