The release of NVIDIA OptiX 9.0 introduces a new feature called cooperative vectors that enables AI workflows as part of ray tracing kernels. The feature leverages NVIDIA RTX Tensor Cores for hardware-accelerated matrix operations and neural net computations during shading. This unlocks AI rendering techniques such as NVIDIA RTX Neural Shaders and NVIDIA RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) and…
]]>Hardware support for ray tracing triangle meshes was introduced as part of NVIDIA RTX in 2018. But ray tracing for hair and fur has remained a compute-intensive problem that has been difficult to further accelerate. That is, until now. NVIDIA GeForce 50 Series GPUs include a major advancement in the acceleration of ray tracing for hair and fur: hardware ray tracing support for the linear…
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