Intel Shows Ray Traced Wolfenstein on a Laptop
Intel doesn't need any GPUs.
Just because Larrabee has been shelved doesn't mean that Intel isn't looking at graphics anymore. In fact, the Intel's background in processors means that it should be more interested than ever in ray tracing, which can product images with accuracy that surpasses even today's best GPUs.
At IDF, Intel is demonstrating a ray traced version of Wolfenstein on a laptop. The game's visuals have been bumped up with a few upgrades. While this is demonstrated on a laptop, all the grunt work is actually done from four servers running a Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture. When the server is finished rendering a frame, it sends to it to the laptop for display.
Check out the video to see it in action and some more in the screenshots below:







4 MIC servers doing the job, is just like saying: look what we could do in 10 years...
4 MIC servers doing the job, is just like saying: look what we could do in 10 years...
Glad to see the advances in ray tracing taking place though.
Exactly. What's the point of this demo anyway? Realtime raytracing has been demonstrated many times. Everyone knows it's possible, but:
- global illumination in realtime is something completely different
- most images in this demo could have been rendered at a comparable quality with current rasterization technology
So this demo brings nothing new to the table. Just a marketing stunt from Intel.
Umm....Crysis already uses ray tracing for shadows and stuff.
Let me rehprase....The HL2 engine has been doing this not using ray tracing....
Seriously though, it's cool they can do this, and that they're researching into this area but if this was meant to impress it didn't succeed in doing so with me.
Still though, I am betting this type of work works better on CUDA / ATI Stream rather then on a CPU.
eg: They could probably do the same thing with a couple of Tesla cards in one box, rather then 4 servers.
Maybe they are no one knows since this article is about Intel not Microsoft
You allow or even put in cheap page view gimmicks like this? And even have the stones to put I in red on the front page.
Sorry I'n not $20 hooker you will lose me as a reader if you keep pulling cheap stunts like this.