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NVIDIA Comments on Ray Tracing and Rasterization Debate

There are many people that don't see ray tracing as the holy grail of gaming graphics, however. A corporation like NVIDIA, that has a vested interested in graphics beyond the scale of any other organization today, has to take a more pragmatic look at rendering technologies including both rasterization and ray tracing; unlike Intel they have decades of high-end rasterization research behind them and see the future of 3D graphics remaining with that technology rather than switching to something new like ray tracing.

PC Perspective recently was able to spend some time with NVIDIA's Dr. David Kirk, Chief Scientist of NVIDIA, and ask him some questions regarding the rasterization and ray tracing debate.

Lord Anubis6642d ago

PS3 runs raytracing through Linux with three PS3s.

Charmers6642d ago

what was the point of you making that comment ???? This is a story looking at whether Ray Tracing is viable in a gaming environment. You come out with Three PS3's can do it !!!!! I don't consider myself a fanboy of either MS or Sony but I can say it is stupid comments like this that is ruining the site for me.

Lord Anubis6642d ago

<.<

the point is clear, this generation will run some routines. (global illumination is a reality in this generation "Killzon2") Next Generation of systems will run more routines.

cmrbe6642d ago

Its interesting to know in any case for me personally. What Anubis said is interesting to me and its not fanboyish or stupid. You taking offence and attacking him/her personally for saying 3PS3 can do ray tracing suggest that you are the fanboy here.

Lord Anubis6642d ago (Edited 6642d ago )

here is the video of the three PS3s running full ray tracing and ray casting.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

and here is a video of CELL running ray tracing. Not the same as above.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

on the comment section for the last video a guy is claiming GT5 uses raytracing I doubt it but i would believe it simply because GT5 looks very real.

pwnsause6642d ago

mmh, Nvidia created the RSX along with sony if you guys dont know, and look at the games we are seeing currently, GT5 for instance, it has raytracing abilities.

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mighty_douche6642d ago

Didn't the Cell processor beat an Nvidia 8800GTX in a ray-tracing exercise? Or is my memory playing tricks on me?

Andreiy6642d ago

Isn't cell is cpu? and 8800gtx is gpu? go compare cpu to cpu

mighty_douche6642d ago

Yes thank you, i DO know the difference, but if you go back far enough, the Cell processor was actually designed to be able to act as both a CPU and GPU.

But thanks for the smart ass advice.

Gorgon6642d ago

Douche:

yes, there were some benchmarks running Ray Tracing software and the Cell was really good at it, beating a GF8800GTX. Unfortunately, faster doesn't mean you can actually use full-blown RT ij games yet...

vasilisk6642d ago

your memory is fine as always
I believe that this is what you're talking about

http://gametomorrow.com/blo...

@gorgon

Actually that's exactly what it means if it's programmed correctly. Maybe not full blown RT yet, as you say, but I think in the near future we'll see some very beautiful games using RT

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cloud360-7th_account6642d ago (Edited 6642d ago )

360 rsx is better which equal graphics, this causes Mixed Agglutination Reaction and i think . get a mose and horse add equlrbrium equals the same equivelenat which creates the binary 1001011 which means fire is possible on 360 only with a scratch or rub mark on the 360 and 360 is better because it takes longer to load meaning more rsxram

"and thats why xbox360 is better than ps3 "

King20086642d ago

Finally got your bubbles up...haters been holding you down for so long lol. Congrats. People are to crazy on this site sometimes. I try to visit a few times a day if school, work, gf allows it but I love to get a good laugh every now and then.

cmrbe6642d ago (Edited 6642d ago )

Thanks for the vids. Very interesting indeed. I don't really know what ray tracing is but these vids helped.

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai15d ago (Edited 15d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio15d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing14d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9214d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit14d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing14d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9214d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."