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

Nvidia

MARCH 14, 2024

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. To manage this level of complexity, it becomes necessary to observe a decomposition of shader performance at the HLSL or GLSL source-code level.

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Latest NVIDIA OptiX Renders Ray Tracing Faster Than Ever Before

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine is a scalable and seamless framework that offers optimal ray tracing performance on GPUs. NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine is a scalable and seamless framework that offers optimal ray tracing performance on GPUs. In this fall update to the NVIDIA.

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

Nvidia

OCTOBER 12, 2022

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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New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

Simplify integration with the new NVIDIA Streamline Since NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) launched in 2019, a variety of super-resolution technologies have shipped from both hardware vendors and engine providers. Traditionally, game engines must bind all active materials in a scene. Unreal Engine 4.27

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

Nvidia

MARCH 20, 2023

In addition, Epic Games announced the DLSS Frame Generation plugin coming to Unreal Engine in its next release. NVIDIA DLSS 3 introduces truly impressive frame generation technology and the Unreal Engine 5.2 Released at GDC 2023, the NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing SDK is available to developers everywhere.

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Solving Self-Intersection Artifacts in DirectX Raytracing

Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2023

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

MAY 17, 2023

The main design philosophy of D3D12 and Vulkan is to enable game engines to distribute graphics workloads across multiple CPU cores. Resource allocation and destruction Creating and destroying buffers, textures, and shaders is fundamental to efficient computer graphics. Shader complexity directly affects creation-call complexity.

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Accelerating Ultra-Realistic Game Development with NVIDIA DLSS 3 and NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing

Nvidia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Featuring third-generation Ray Tracing Cores and fourth-generation Tensor Cores, they accelerate games that take advantage of the latest neural graphics and ray tracing technology. Path tracing takes a physics-based approach to how light moves around a scene.

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In-Game GPU Profiling for DirectX 12 Using SetBackgroundProcessingMode

Nvidia

JULY 10, 2023

One factor to consider is whether background driver optimizations were engaged and when their resulting optimized shaders were deployed. The observations are then used to compile a shader asynchronously. Understandably, this can cause a great deal of confusion in timing your shaders.

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Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Nvidia

MAY 21, 2021

NetEase Thunder Fire Games Uses Mesh Shading To Create Beautiful Game Environments for Justice In December, we interviewed Haiyong Qian, NetEase Game Engine. Recently, NetEase introduced Mesh Shader support to Justice. To learn more about the implementation and results, we sat down with Yuheng Zou, game engine developer at NetEase.

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Implementing Path Tracing in ‘Justice’: An Interview with Dinggen Zhan of NetEase

Nvidia

OCTOBER 4, 2022

NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing is the ultimate solution for ray tracing. Realistic physical illumination is naturally implemented with path tracing, which improves visual appeal and reduces defects. What challenges did you face during the process of integrating ray tracing? Debugging costs us significant time.

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NVIDIA Announces Nsight Graphics 2021.3 – Now Available For Download

Nvidia

JULY 19, 2021

We have enabled Optix support for GPU Trace, including Vulkan applications that trace rays in the compute shader and use OptiX as a denoiser. GPU Trace is able to show NVTX markers, which when used with OptiX can provide helpful contextual information. Try out the latest version of Nsight Graphics today!

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Migrating from Range Profiler to GPU Trace in Nsight Graphics

Nvidia

APRIL 20, 2023

The Range Profiler’s pie chart shows instructions executed, per shader stage. GPU Trace can measure total instructions, but a per-shader stage decomposition is only available in the Occupancy chart. HUB traffic includes the Primitive Distributor, Copy Engines, and a few other units. “L1” What about the Shader Profiler?

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Implementing USD for Game Development Pipelines: An Interview with Polyphony Digital

Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

Tools Pipeline Engineering Lead Megumi Ando sat down with NVIDIA to discuss the integration process in the company’s latest release as well as their adoption plans in Polyphony’s game development pipeline. To be able to use the renderer in a game engine, you must either prepare a conversion pipeline instead of a renderer or use a game engine.

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

Latest NVIDIA OptiX Renders Ray Tracing Faster Than Ever Before

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

New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

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

Solving Self-Intersection Artifacts in DirectX Raytracing

Advanced API Performance: CPUs

Accelerating Ultra-Realistic Game Development with NVIDIA DLSS 3 and NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing

In-Game GPU Profiling for DirectX 12 Using SetBackgroundProcessingMode

Realistic Lighting in Justice with Mesh Shading

Implementing Path Tracing in ‘Justice’: An Interview with Dinggen Zhan of NetEase

NVIDIA Announces Nsight Graphics 2021.3 – Now Available For Download

Migrating from Range Profiler to GPU Trace in Nsight Graphics

Implementing USD for Game Development Pipelines: An Interview with Polyphony Digital

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