The announcement today (August 20) of Nvidia's new GPUs with integrated acceleration of raytracing makes Microsoft's plans for DirectX even more relevant. Raytracing gives developers access to a wide ...
A recent report from David Kanter of Real World Technologies investigates why graphics chips provided by Nvidia — namely those based on the company’s Maxwell and Pascal architectures — perform better ...
Before diving into ray tracing ("RT" for short), let's first take a look at how illumination works in the real world. From the micro-perspective, the surface of an object illuminated by a ray of light ...