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Old June 5th, 2003   #19 (permalink)
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Originally posted by roxor
With this proposed new architecture, do you think it would be possible to have the GPU do raytracing fast enough for real-time applications?
Boy, someone's obsessed with raytracing, eh?

Short answer: no, not until your basic CPU can handle tens of thousands more instructions per second than what we have now.

However, having said that, it does not prevent the use of other shading/rendering technique to be used instead to achieve real-time lifelike cinema quality animations.
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