Ray Processing Unit
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The Ray Processing Unit (RPU) is experimental ray tracing hardware device
, developed at the Saarland University
. It will be 50-100 times faster than the most advanced graphics processing unit
.
Unlike the previous SaarCOR
architecture, which could do only predefined operations, RPU is programmable.
Ray tracing hardware
Ray tracing hardware is special purpose computer hardware designed for accelerating ray tracing calculations.-Introduction: Ray tracing and rasterization:...
, developed at the Saarland University
Saarland University
Saarland University is a university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland, and Homburg. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in 8 faculties 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 specialized circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory in such a way so as to accelerate the building of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display...
.
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.