Comments for: Real-time ray tracing advocate gets a job at Intel

#1. Posted at 11:05 AM on Apr 3rd 2007, Edited at 11:06 AM on Apr 3rd 2007

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poulpy

Real-Time Raytracing does sound good and is arguably quite scalable across CPUs *but* the last time I checked his website Quake 4 ran at a sluggish 17FPS at 256x256(!!) on nothing less than a Core 2 Extreme QX6700(!!).
So think it's pretty safe to say it won't make it using any desktop CPU in the short/mid term future.

Our only hope could come from the dedicated hardware accelerators, but even if they perform will users and dev suddenly feel like throwing away their GPUs for something completely new?

#1, CPUs today might do Ray tracing very slowly but who's to say... : DukenukemX (#2) «

#2, Well I suspect that if they can work out a viable hardwar... : poulpy (#3) «

#2, nVidia is already leagues ahead of Intel and AMD/ATI in p... : fatpipes (#7) «

#2, Right, it's not just CPU. Raytracing has a lot of random ... : zqw (#9) «

#1, Go ahead and try playing quake4 using just your CPU to do th... : Shinare (#4) «

#4, Well I may not have been clear but I was pointing out tha... : poulpy (#5) «

#4, UT2004 has a software renderer for those of you actually ... : Peldor (#6) «

#1, Our only hope could come from the dedicated hardware acceler... : green (#12) «

#12, and fold. :) : Shinare (#13) «

#10. Posted at 09:52 PM on Apr 3rd 2007

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d0g_p00p

Nice to know that intel is looking ahead and we will keep seeing more uber craptastic intel integrated video well into the future.

#8. Posted at 01:22 PM on Apr 3rd 2007

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eitje

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing
http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/raytrace/rtr...

in case anyone is interesting in learning about Ray Tracing. :)