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> development of Nvidia's RTX like convincing Nvidia that dedicating silicon to RT calc was worth it, or writing part of the acceleration structures they use n

by qiine 3y ago

> development of Nvidia's RTX like convincing Nvidia that dedicating silicon to RT calc was worth it, or writing part of the acceleration structures they use now ?

pixelpoet 3y ago
Some key publications, already quite old: https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2009-08_Understanding-the-Efficiency/aila2009hpg_paper.pdf https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2009-08... https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2012-06_Maximizing-Parallelism-in/karras2012hpg_paper.pdf https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2012-06... https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2013-07_Megakernels-Considered-Harmful/laine2013hpg_paper.pdf https://research.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/pubs/2013-07...
- qiine 3y ago
  Nice so they did both hardware and software works, incredible.
  - pixelpoet 3y ago
    The original modern tile-based rasterisation architecture is from Bitboys (also Finnish ex-demoscene), via fabled vapourware Glaze3D, which eventually made its way to AMD and Nvidia.