Intel already demonstrated the ray tracing technology ( construction of exploded views ) using a multiprocessor systems, After one and half years this technology will be used with larrabee. NVIDIA company understand that its video chip are also capable of working with rays tracing. As reports associate , AMD video chip are completely capable of composing competition to Intel and NVIDIA product in the construction of realistic photo using the same method .
julesWorld company already used a system on base radeon 2900 XT (R600) for creating the trailer of Transformer film , which were checked in the real time scale . The video card radeon HD 2900 XT with 1Gb memory managed the task at 20-30 FPS speed with 720p resolution and without smoothing. Passage to Radeon HD 3870 allow to increase the speed to 60 frames per second, but with smoothing enabled the speed fell to 20 frames per second. Finally, the video card radeon HD 4870 execute this task with 60 frames per second, moreover smoothing does not lead in speed loss! This technology also works on NVIDIA video chips from GeForce 8800 and older, but in view of architectural special features they demonstrate a lower speed . Related Products :
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