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Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

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To achieve high efficiency with ray tracing, you must build a pipeline that scales well at every stage. To achieve high efficiency with ray tracing, you must build a pipeline that scales well at every stage. For ray tracing, visibility can be estimated directly based on the number of rays hitting each object.

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Flexible and Powerful Ray Tracing with NVIDIA OptiX 8

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NVIDIA OptiX is a powerful and flexible ray-tracing framework, In the realm of computer graphics, achieving photorealistic visuals has been a long-sought goal. NVIDIA OptiX is a powerful and flexible ray-tracing framework, enabling you to harness the potential of ray tracing. Rendered with Chaos V-Ray.

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Best Practices for Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing (Updated)

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[stextbox id="info"]This post is an update of Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing.[/stextbox] This post is an update of Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing. This post gathers best practices based on our experiences so far using NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in games. Do this whenever possible.

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Latest NVIDIA OptiX Renders Ray Tracing Faster Than Ever Before

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NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine is a scalable and seamless framework that offers optimal ray tracing performance on GPUs. NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine is a scalable and seamless framework that offers optimal ray tracing performance on GPUs. In this fall update to the NVIDIA.

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Improve Shader Performance and In-Game Frame Rates with Shader Execution Reordering 

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NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). NVIDIA recently introduced a new feature available in the next generation of GPUs: Shader execution reordering (SER). Background Shading divergence is a long-standing problem in ray tracing.

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Advanced API Performance: CPUs

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Resource allocation and destruction Creating and destroying buffers, textures, and shaders is fundamental to efficient computer graphics. For more information, see Best Practices: Using NVIDIA RTX Ray Tracing. Not recommended Avoid needlessly creating pipeline state objects and ray tracing objects.

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Migrating from Range Profiler to GPU Trace in Nsight Graphics

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The Range Profiler’s pie chart shows instructions executed, per shader stage. GPU Trace can measure total instructions, but a per-shader stage decomposition is only available in the Occupancy chart. On modern GPUs, the L1TEX cache is a combined L1 Data Cache that contains a Load/Store Unit + Texture Unit.