Ray-tracing hardware is special-purpose computer hardware designed for accelerating ray tracing calculations. The problem of rendering 3D graphics can...

fidelity, ray tracing-based rendering techniques, such as ray casting, recursive ray tracing, distribution ray tracing, photon mapping and path tracing, are...

mainstream PCs for gaming. Nvidia RTX features hardware-enabled real-time ray tracing. Historically, ray tracing had been reserved to non-real time applications...

participating media to generate realistic (physically plausible) images. This ray tracing technique uses the Monte Carlo method to accurately model global illumination...

Hardware acceleration is the use of computer hardware designed to perform specific functions more efficiently when compared to software running on a general-purpose...

Tempest Engine and dedicated ray tracing hardware to support advanced haptic feedback, 3D spatial audio and real-time ray tracing effects. The PlayStation...

advantage of the console's increased processing power, dedicated ray-tracing hardware, custom solid-state drive storage, Tempest Engine, and DualSense...

advantage of the console's increased processing power, dedicated ray-tracing hardware, custom solid-state drive storage, Tempest Engine and DualSense controller...

RX 6000 series, its RDNA 2 graphics cards with support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing. The product series, launched in late 2020, consisted of the...

Sphere tracing, the function estimates a distance to step next. Ray marching is also used in physics simulations as an alternative to ray tracing where...

microarchitecture is focused on graphics performance and supports hardware-accelerated ray tracing, DisplayPort 2.0, XeSS or supersampling based on neural networks...

featuring a faster GPU, improved ray tracing, and introducing an AI-driven upscaling technology. The PlayStation 5's main hardware features include a solid-state...

traversal can further accelerate ray-tracing. Currently, real-time ray tracing is available on multiple platforms. Hardware implementation of BVH is one of...

and reflections system that leverages software as well as hardware accelerated ray tracing. Unreal Engine 5 was revealed on May 13, 2020, supporting all...

and feature Nvidia RTX's third-generation RT cores for hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing, and fourth-generation deep-learning-focused Tensor Cores...

generation of RTX cards, the first in the industry to implement hardware-enabled real-time ray tracing in a consumer product. In a departure from Nvidia's usual...

Real-time hardware accelerated ray tracing is a new feature for RDNA 2 which is handled by a dedicated ray accelerator inside each CU. Ray tracing on RDNA...

have solid-state drives to reduce loading times, support for hardware-accelerated ray-tracing and spatial audio, the ability to convert games to high-dynamic-range...

featuring Nvidia RTX's fourth-generation RT cores for hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing, and fifth-generation deep-learning-focused Tensor Cores...

("Tensor cores") and dedicated ray tracing processors ("RT cores"). Turing leverages DXR, OptiX, and Vulkan for access to ray tracing. In February 2019, Nvidia...

integrates a new Apple-designed four or five-core GPU, now adding hardware accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading support to the non-Pro lineup. Apple claims...

and SPIR-V, by Apple via Metal. NVIDIA and AMD called "ray tracing shaders" as "ray tracing cores". Tensor shaders may be integrated in NPUs or GPUs...

first iPad SoC to support hardware-accelerated AV1 decoding, as well as hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing introduced to MacBooks in the...

Quadro RTX/RTX series GPUs have tensor cores and hardware support for realtime ray tracing Hardware accelerated video encoding (via NVENC) and decoding...

reflections.) A type of ray tracing called path tracing is currently the most common technique for photorealistic rendering. Path tracing is also popular for...

Technologies. The Caustic ray tracing hardware was not a replacement for existing rasterisation GPUs, but rather added several new hardware functions to increase...

second generation ray-tracing accelerators. Each Compute Unit contains one ray tracing accelerator. The overall number of ray tracing accelerators is increased...

second-generation ray tracing (RT) cores and third-generation Tensor Cores. Part of the Nvidia RTX series, hardware-enabled real-time ray tracing is featured...

Lisa Su saying that the architecture "delivers significantly higher ray tracing performance and adds new AI capabilities". In December 2024, an AMD advertising...

real-time applications using Shaders or offline applications using ray tracing or path tracing. Starting in the 1980s, a number of rendering researchers worked...