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Ray Tracing Gems II Available Today as Free Digital Download

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Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress. Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress. Ray tracing is the holy grail of gaming graphics, simulating the physical behavior of light to bring real-time, cinematic-quality rendering to even the most visually intense games.

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Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

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[stextbox id="info"]This post is an update of Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing.[/stextbox] This post is an update of Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing. This post gathers best practices based on our experiences so far using NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in games.

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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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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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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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Announcing Latest Nsight Graphics 2021.4 – Download Now

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One-shot captures are supported for D3D12 and Vulkan applications using compute or ray tracing features. Ray tracing with DirectML and WinML is also supported. GPU Trace Trace Analysis helps identify work regimes with the most potential for performance improvement. GPU Trace now supports this capability.

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New Suite of Nsight Tools for Gaming and Graphics Developers

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Identifying bottlenecks, highlighting code (multi-threading operations, event timing ) to improve efficiency and the unique features offerings for refined user experience. Gather in-depth GPU profiling reports with only minutes of effort, in under 10 lines of code. NV Vulkan Ray Tracing Extension), OpenGL, OpenVR, and the Oculus SDK.