PowerVR GR6500: Ray tracing is the future and the future is now
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#2John Carmack is a fan: "I am very happy with the advent of the PVR Wizard ray tracing tech. RTRT HW from people with a clue!"
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/446021820290842624
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#3It's best to remember that ray tracing isn't the be all and end all of graphics since it's far harder for artists to control the results than the other hacked up ways. One consequence of this is their example comparison, where I think it's entirely subjective to say the ray traced output is better. Neither is particularly great.
The big win is around indirect lighting, but the development of that in standard rasterisers in the last decade has exceeded even my wildly optimistic expectations.
New options = good, but there's no such thing as a graphics silver bullet.
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#4Open source drivers is the future.. but it's nowhere now :(
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#5How about FP64?
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#6What's the difference between ray tracing and path tracing? And could we have a path tracing chip?
This demo was pretty impressive. I think they said they used 4 Titans at 720p.
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#7I dont know much about the differences but the samples images (like the yacht) don't look particularly impressive or real to me.
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#8I for one welcome our new PowerVR overlords.
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#9I dont know much about the differences but the samples images (like the yacht) don't look particularly impressive or real to me.
Mobile. They can do that on mobile. :)
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#10I dont know much about the differences but the samples images (like the yacht) don't look particularly impressive or real to me.
The water does.