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Optimize Ray Tracing with NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2021.5 Featuring Windows 11 Support

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NV Vulkan Ray Tracing Extension), Today, NVIDIA announced Nsight Graphics 2021.5, NV Vulkan Ray Tracing Extension), OpenGL, OpenVR, and the Oculus SDK. Nsight Graphics is a standalone developer tool that enables you to debug, profile, and export frames built with high-fidelity 3D graphics applications.

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Ray Tracing Updates Available through NVIDIA SDKs and the NVIDIA Branch of Unreal Engine

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Today, developers can access the latest versions of RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI), RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI), NVIDIA Real-Time Denoisers (NRD), and OptiX Ray Tracing Engine (OptiX). NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine 7.4 also received performance improvements to the demand loading library, ray payloads, and curves.

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Speed Up GPU Crash Debugging with NVIDIA Nsight Aftermath

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NVIDIA Nsight Developer Tools provide comprehensive access to NVIDIA GPUs and graphics APIs for performance analysis, optimization, and debugging activities. NVIDIA Nsight Developer Tools provide comprehensive access to NVIDIA GPUs and graphics APIs for performance analysis, optimization, and debugging activities.

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Ultra-Realism Made Accessible with NVIDIA AI and Path Tracing Technologies

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Integration of real-time path tracing technology simplified Real-time ray tracing in games was made possible with the introduction of RT cores in the NVIDIA Turing architecture. Released at GDC 2023, the NVIDIA RTX Path Tracing SDK is available to developers everywhere. Watch the demo video to learn more. Video 2.

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Uplifting Optimizations, Debugging, and Performance Tuning with NVIDIA Nsight Developer Tools

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Good developer tools are like an x-ray machine that allows you to peek into the internals of the GPU. There is always some layer of abstraction between the physical computer and the application that you are building, but you can’t optimize and debug what you can’t see.

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NVIDIA at GDC 2021: RTX and AI Sees New Platforms, New Development Tools, New Updates, and a New SDK

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Increasingly, game developers are making full use of real-time ray tracing and AI in their games. Increasingly, game developers are making full use of real-time ray tracing and AI in their games. Now, NVIDIA ray tracing and AI are making their premiere on Arm and Linux systems.

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Experience the Latest Breakthroughs in Game Development with NVIDIA at GDC

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NvRTX Artist Guide Learn more about the NVIDIA RTX Unreal Engine Branch (NvRTX), and discover technologies such as RTXDI, RTXGI, new denoisers like Relax, ray-traced volumetrics and tools like the BVH viewer. This session will cover several challenges developers can encounter when working to deploy ray tracing in a game environment.