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The Ray Processing Unit (RPU) is experimental ray tracing hardware device
Ray tracing hardware

Ray tracing hardware is a special purpose computer hardware design for accelerating real-time ray tracing.Ray Tracing vs. Rasterization ...
, developed at the Saarland University
Saarland University

Saarland University is a university located in Saarbr?cken, the capital of the Germany state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in co-operation with France and is organized in 8 Faculty that cover all major fields of science....
. It will be 50-100 times faster than the most advanced graphics processing unit
Graphics processing unit

A graphics processing unit or GPU is a dedicated graphics rendering device for a personal computer, workstation, or game console. Modern GPUs are very efficient at manipulating and displaying computer graphics, and their highly parallel structure makes them more effective than general-purpose Central processing unit for a range of com...
.

Unlike the previous SaarCOR
SaarCOR

SaarCOR is an early experimental ray tracing hardware, developed at the Saarland University.As SaarCOR is not programmable, it accelerates only a small part of the ray tracing process that deals with finding intersections....
 architecture, which could do only predefined operations, RPU is programmable.







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The Ray Processing Unit (RPU) is experimental ray tracing hardware device
Ray tracing hardware

Ray tracing hardware is a special purpose computer hardware design for accelerating real-time ray tracing.Ray Tracing vs. Rasterization ...
, developed at the Saarland University
Saarland University

Saarland University is a university located in Saarbr?cken, the capital of the Germany state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in co-operation with France and is organized in 8 Faculty that cover all major fields of science....
. It will be 50-100 times faster than the most advanced graphics processing unit
Graphics processing unit

A graphics processing unit or GPU is a dedicated graphics rendering device for a personal computer, workstation, or game console. Modern GPUs are very efficient at manipulating and displaying computer graphics, and their highly parallel structure makes them more effective than general-purpose Central processing unit for a range of com...
.

Unlike the previous SaarCOR
SaarCOR

SaarCOR is an early experimental ray tracing hardware, developed at the Saarland University.As SaarCOR is not programmable, it accelerates only a small part of the ray tracing process that deals with finding intersections....
 architecture, which could do only predefined operations, RPU is programmable.

See Also

  • SaarCOR
    SaarCOR

    SaarCOR is an early experimental ray tracing hardware, developed at the Saarland University.As SaarCOR is not programmable, it accelerates only a small part of the ray tracing process that deals with finding intersections....
  • OpenRT
    OpenRT

    The goal of the "OpenRT Real Time Ray Tracing Project" is to develop ray tracing to the point where it offers an alternative to the current rasterization based approach for interactive 3D graphics....


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