What’s the Difference Between Hardware- and Software-Accelerated Ray Tracing?
You don’t need specialized hardware to do ray tracing, but you want it. Software-based ray tracing, of course, is decades old. And it looks great: movie makers have been using ray tracing for decad...

Source: NVIDIA Blog
You don’t need specialized hardware to do ray tracing, but you want it. Software-based ray tracing, of course, is decades old. And it looks great: movie makers have been using ray tracing for decades now. But it’s now clear that specialized hardware — like the RT Cores built into NVIDIA’s Turing architecture — makes a […]