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0 pointsykl2y ago0 comments

Ray tracing has been 100% software (as in, either entirely on the CPU or implemented in shader code or CUDA/OpenCL on the GPU) up until 2018, which is when the first hardware-accelerated ray tracing GPUs became widely available.

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PedroBatista2y ago

That's why ray-tracing in games was not a thing up until 2018.

The context is games, which is what they've shown on the presentation to sell us the new iPhone.

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0 pointsykl2y ago0 comments

Ray tracing has been 100% software (as in, either entirely on the CPU or implemented in shader code or CUDA/OpenCL on the GPU) up until 2018, which is when the first hardware-accelerated ray tracing GPUs became widely available.

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PedroBatista2y ago

That's why ray-tracing in games was not a thing up until 2018.

The context is games, which is what they've shown on the presentation to sell us the new iPhone.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse