Ray Tracing

Microsoft has published a performance-optimizing patent for ray-tracing, that is designed to reduce the memory footprint of workloads via an RT level of detail system.

A Mesa 3D Graphics Library developer has implemented support for CPU-based ray-tracing in Vulkan. In early testing of the driver in Quake II RTX only 1FPS performance was achieved, but it's a start.

The new 3DMark Solar Bay benchmark is a cross-platform series of tests assessing ray tracing performance, and is now available for Windows and Android users.

Nvidia RTX technology set off from a standing start in Sept 2018, and has now (almost) reached the 400 apps and games milestone.

Nvidia has announced that its ray-traced remake of Portal will be available as free DLC for the game on December 8. It will also feature DLSS 3 for RTX 40-series owners.

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Intel Mesa Vulkan driver fix required just one line of memory allocation code to be changed to yield a 100x speedup in ray tracing performance.

Arm's Immortalis GPUs use just 4% of the shader core area to deliver a 300% uplift in ray tracing performance. These new GPUs should debut in flagship devices in early 2023.

An international team of researchers have developed a proof-of-concept algorithm that pairs classical and quantum rendering techniques to improve ray tracing performance by leaps and bounds.