Codasip delivers custom RISC-V processing to SiliconArts’ ray-tracing GPUs
With Codasip 7-series core IP and Codasip Studio tools.
Getting into the swing of Spider-Man Remastered on the PC
After spending many hours completing Spider-Man Remastered main story and being unable to tear ourselves away from the screen, editors at BabelTechReviews (BTR) recommend it as a great game with a few flaws. Mark Poppin, Mario Vasquez, and I have collaborated on this review, each of us playing the game for 20 or more hours. We cover the gameplay, updated … Read more
Arm says no to inferencing for ray tracing
Preparing for their initial public offering road tour, Arm has announced a new GPU and naming scheme, and committed fully to 64 bits for their CPU designs. SoftBank Group Corp. is considering listing some of its stake in chip designer Arm Ltd. on the London Stock Exchange, switching from an earlier plan to only use the US market, according to … Read more
Once again Nvidia provides us with the most powerful GPU in the solar system
Mount Tiburon Testing Labs puts EVGA’s RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 Ultra Gaming AIB through its paces
Announced at CES, the entry-level Ampere RTX 3050 is tested
Nvidia introduces ray tracing features to the entry-level.
Nvidia offers ray tracing like software filters for non-RT games
(Source: @Atrix256) In their January 2022 driver update, Nvidia added an option to allow end-users to add ray tracing-like quality to their games through the Nvidia game filters option and Screen Space Ray Traced Global Illumination (SSRTGI). SSRTGI, screen-space ambient occlusion, and dynamic depth of field filters allow users to make games look more cinematic and photorealistic. Nvidia used … Read more
Imagination Technologies fires photon ray
Image courtesy Movieclips.com Imagination Technologies has introduced its latest ray tracing IP, the IMG CXT for its flagship B-series GPU IP. The announcement marks the debut of Imagination’s PowerVR Photon ray tracing architecture. Photon, says Imagination, is the industry’s most advanced ray tracing architecture, bringing desktop-quality visuals to mobile and embedded applications. The biggest news is that it has already … Read more
SiliconArts released its ray tracing accelerator core to the Intel Solutions Marketplace
Source: SiliconArts SiliconArts is releasing a dedicated ray-tracing accelerator core into the Intel Solutions Marketplace. As an Intel Partner Alliance (IPA) Gold Member, SiliconArts is expanding its support for FPGA design services to incorporate its ray tracing IP into a dedicated IP core that can be combined with legacy GPUs to provide ray tracing to any level of graphics … Read more
DLSS 2.0 is a big leap in rendering
The basic concept of Deep Learning Super Sampling—DLSS—is just what its name implies. Nvidia trains a deep learning AI model with very high-quality images on a supercomputer and provides that model along with their GPU driver. Games use that model during gameplay to create a higher resolution image using computations based on lower resolution game renders along with the power … Read more
The flagship AIB for the Nvidia’s Ampere comes to town
Comparisons are challenging
Imagination shows the way to ray tracing
A ray traced version of Imagination Technologies’ headquarters building Imagination has had ray tracing capabilities since 2010 when they acquired the boutique ray tracing company Caustic. Caustic had developed a hardware accelerator which Imagination turned into an RTL core and added to their stable of IP accelerators. The company has built out their ray tracing SDK and, in the … Read more
New notebooks updated with Nvidia’s RTX 3050 ray tracing tech
Got your ray tracing on yet? What are you waiting for, there’s over 140 notebooks to choose from with prices as low as $800. You can get a new notebook with Nvidia’s new RTX3050 that runs Nvidia’s new DLSS 2.0 ray tracing magic. If you’re a gamer, even a casual gamer, you can game in a ray traced environment with one … Read more