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Real-time ray tracing has been one of the biggest advances in GPU rendering and PC gaming in the past decade. Due to the sheer hardware grunt required to achieve it, it kickstarted the push into the ...

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The R2500 uses a pair of RT2 ray trace units (RTUs). Each RTU is capable of calculating up to 50 million incoherent rays per second, and each chip has 8GB of dedicated DDR2 RAM (16GB total). There's ...

This article is part of the Electronics History series: The Graphics Chip Chronicles. In early 2018, NVIDIA showcased hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing using its DGX system and the DXR API.

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WTF?! Real-time ray tracing is one of the most computationally demanding features in modern video games, significantly impacting frame rates on the latest consoles and most PC graphics cards. However, ...