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Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

Nvidia

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

Nvidia

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

Nvidia

NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). Background Shading divergence is a long-standing problem in ray tracing.

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

Nvidia

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

Nvidia

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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Solving Self-Intersection Artifacts in DirectX Raytracing

Nvidia

In DirectX Raytracing (DXR) this self-intersection check would be implemented in an any-hit shader. For more information, see Ray Tracing Gems: High-Quality and Real-Time Rendering with DXR and Other APIs. Figure 2 shows the sources of numerical error for secondary rays. edge1, mul(barys.y,

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Advanced API Performance: CPUs

Nvidia

Resource allocation and destruction Creating and destroying buffers, textures, and shaders is fundamental to efficient computer graphics. For more information, see Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing. Not recommended Avoid needlessly creating pipeline state objects and ray tracing objects.