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Latest NVIDIA OptiX Renders Ray Tracing Faster Than Ever Before

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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 

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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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Unlocking GPU Intrinsics in HLSL

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For example, a shader can use warp shuffle instructions to exchange data between threads in a warp without going through shared memory, which is especially valuable in pixel shaders where there is no shared memory. Or a shader can perform atomic additions on half-precision floating-point numbers in global memory. x, u1 mov r3.yz,

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

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Although it is a library designed for video production, USD’s mechanism for supporting large and complex pipelines could be used for in-game production. In particular, shaders are complex and developing a new environment for previewing and editing shaders in Houdini is expensive and difficult to implement quickly.

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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. Do this whenever possible.