NVIDIA RT Cores
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NVIDIA RT Cores are specialized hardware units in NVIDIA GPUs designed to accelerate real-time ray tracing by efficiently performing ray–triangle intersection and related calculations.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
GPU hardware unit
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ray tracing accelerator ⓘ |
| accelerates | ray tracing workloads ⓘ |
| associatedWithBrand | NVIDIA RTX NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| benefits |
hybrid rasterization-ray tracing pipelines
ⓘ
path tracing implementations ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
Unity ray tracing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Unreal Engine ray tracing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| designedFor | real-time ray tracing ⓘ |
| developedBy | NVIDIA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enables |
real-time global illumination effects
ⓘ
real-time reflections ⓘ real-time soft shadows ⓘ |
| exposedThrough |
DirectX 12 Ultimate
NERFINISHED
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NVIDIA OptiX API NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hardwareLevel | fixed-function unit ⓘ |
| implements | hardware-accelerated BVH traversal ⓘ |
| improves |
ray tracing performance per watt
ⓘ
visual realism in supported applications ⓘ |
| introducedInProductLine | NVIDIA Turing architecture GPUs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| introducedInYear | 2018 ⓘ |
| locatedOn | NVIDIA GPU die ⓘ |
| marketedAs | RTX technology component ⓘ |
| offloadsFrom | CUDA cores ⓘ |
| optimizedFor | bounding volume hierarchy traversal ⓘ |
| performs |
ray–bounding volume intersection calculations
ⓘ
ray–triangle intersection calculations ⓘ |
| presentInArchitecture |
NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
NERFINISHED
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NVIDIA Ampere NERFINISHED ⓘ NVIDIA Turing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryOperationType |
ray traversal
GENERATED
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ray-primitive intersection GENERATED ⓘ |
| reduces | ray tracing computation time ⓘ |
| requires | software support in game engine ⓘ |
| supports |
Microsoft DirectX Raytracing
NERFINISHED
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NVIDIA RTX platform NERFINISHED ⓘ Vulkan ray tracing extensions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetDomain |
architectural visualization
ⓘ
film and VFX previsualization ⓘ game graphics ⓘ professional visualization ⓘ real-time graphics rendering ⓘ |
| usedInProductFamily |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX
NERFINISHED
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NVIDIA Quadro RTX NERFINISHED ⓘ NVIDIA RTX A-series professional GPUs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| worksWith |
NVIDIA CUDA cores
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NVIDIA Tensor Cores NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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