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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Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

It sits between the game and render API, and abstracts the SDK-specific API calls into an easy-to-use Streamline framework. Streamline’s plug-and-play framework sits between the game and render API. This scene highlights ray tracing, global illumination, ambient occlusion, and ray traced shadows, enabled through KickStart SDK.

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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. Rendering with self-intersection avoidance (left) and without self-intersection avoidance (right).

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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. It delivers up to 4x improvements in frame rate and up to 2x improvements in latency compared to native resolution rendering.

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Nvidia

MAY 17, 2023

Resource allocation and destruction Creating and destroying buffers, textures, and shaders is fundamental to efficient computer graphics. Recommended Use a dedicated thread for resource creation to avoid hidden OS costs and blocking frame rendering, as this can result in costly OS paging work.

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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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Nvidia

OCTOBER 4, 2022

NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing is the ultimate solution for ray tracing. The rendering pipeline of Justice is built on physically based rendering (PBR). Realistic physical illumination is naturally implemented with path tracing, which improves visual appeal and reduces defects.

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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 Development Researcher and Manager of NetEase Thunder Fire Games Technical Center, to see what he’s learned as the Justice team added NVIDIA ray-tracing solutions to their development pipeline.

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Nvidia

AUGUST 9, 2023

When using advanced rendering techniques like ray tracing or path tracing, Nsight tools are your companion for creating a smooth and polished experience. At SIGGRAPH 2023, NVIDIA hosted a lab exploring how to use NVIDIA Nsight Tools to debug and profile ray tracing applications.

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Nvidia

JULY 19, 2021

We support capturing OpenGL SwapBuffers calls for overall frame timing, as well as capturing screenshots of windows rendered to by OpenGL. We have enabled Optix support for GPU Trace, including Vulkan applications that trace rays in the compute shader and use OptiX as a denoiser.

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Nvidia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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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Nvidia

MARCH 17, 2023

In particular, shaders are complex and developing a new environment for previewing and editing shaders in Houdini is expensive and difficult to implement quickly. There is no environment like KATANA or Houdini SOLARIS where you can lay out the USD, light it, render it, and so on.

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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. What about the Shader Profiler? the Shader Profiler continues to be available through the Frame Debugger activity.

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Nvidia

JULY 25, 2022

[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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Nvidia

DECEMBER 5, 2024

One of the great pastimes of graphics developers and enthusiasts is comparing specifications of GPUs and marveling at the ever-increasing counts of shader. Massive amounts of rendering… Source Achieving the maximum theoretical performance represented by those numbers is a major focus in the world of graphics programming.

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Nvidia

JANUARY 30, 2025

Powered by NVIDIA Blackwell, GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs deliver groundbreaking new RTX features such as DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, and NVIDIA RTX Kit with RTX Mega Geometry and RTX Neural Shaders.

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