News - NVIDIA enters the race to ray tracing with GPU demo

[HEXUS]

At SIGGRAPH 2008, NVIDIA demonstrates that the GPU is capable of ray-tracing, but it's still a technology for the future.

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[Crevan]

Ray tracing is known to achieve near-perfect scaling with multiple cores, and this will clearly favour the many-core Larrabee architecture.

Favour Larrabee over Intel's own cpus? Surely the 240/800 cores on GTX280/4870 are just asking for some highly-parallel ray-tracing action.