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3D Raytracing Chip Shown at CeBIT

Posted by timothy on from the division-of-labor dept.

An anonymous reader submits "As noted at heise.de Saarland University is showing a prototype of a 3D Raytracing Card at CeBIT2005. The FPGA is clocked at 90 MHz and is 3-5 times faster in raytracing then a Pentium4 CPU with 30 times more MHz. Besides game engines using raytracing there was a scene of a Boeing with 350 million polygons rendered in realtime."

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  1. Whoa, 90 MHz?? by CypherXero · · Score: 3, Funny

    For a second there, I thought I hit my head, and I had gone back to the early 90's!

  2. meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news The Miskatonic University is showing a prototype of a 3D Raytracing Card at CeBIT2005.

    The FPGA is clocked at 666 MHz and is 3.5 billion times faster in raytracing then a 80486 CPU.

    Besides game engines using raytracing there was a scene of Cthulhu awakening in 350 trillion polygons rendered in realtime.

    i.e. Vaporware

    1. Re:meh by YOU+LIKEWISE+FAIL+IT · · Score: 3, Funny

      The big limitation is that it only renders non-euclidian geometry.

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    2. Re:meh by SilentChris · · Score: 2, Funny

      Better than the model that only uses imaginary numbers.

    3. Re:meh by Mancat · · Score: 2, Funny

      Why are you so mad at the world?

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  3. Just annonced by Prophetic_Truth · · Score: 5, Funny

    3D Realms upon learning of this new technology has decided to push back "Duke Nukem Forver" until the engine rewrite is completed.

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    1. Re:Just annonced by moeffju · · Score: 2, Funny

      You misplaced your quotes. It should read:

      3DRealms, upon learning of this new technology, have decided to push back "Duke Nukem" forever.

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  4. What I would like to see by narcolepticjim · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is the Beowulf movie rendered with a cluster of these.

  5. Impossible! by menace3society · · Score: 5, Funny
    The FPGA is clocked at 90 MHz and is 3-5 times faster in raytracing then a Pentium4 CPU with 30 times more MHz.

    That's ridiculous. Everyone on slashdot surely knows by now that the only reliable way to compare processor speeds across architecures is to compare clock speed!

    1. Re:Impossible! by PxM · · Score: 1, Funny

      In order to clear up the confusion about performance, the FPGA company involved here has decided to drop the 90MHz from ads and just call the FPGA 75000 ultra-uber-extreme edition.

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  6. Re:Then vs Than by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    "Generally, if you think THAN=comparisson, you're okay."

    No, your should have used "comparison" here. Here is an entry from dictionary.com:

    comparison (km-pr-sn) n.

    1.
    1. The act of comparing or the process of being compared.
    2. A statement or estimate of similarities and differences.
    2. The quality of being similar or equivalent; likeness: no comparison between the two books.
    3. Grammar. The modification or inflection of an adjective or adverb to denote the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees, as in English, along with the equative degree in certain other languages, such as Irish Gaelic.

    Really, it may seem petty, but glaring spelling errors like this are an immediate turn-off. I read comments like this and immediately assume the commentor is a prick.

  7. Re:Then vs Than by The+Journalist · · Score: 1, Funny
    "comparisson"

    Suppose I point out it's "comparison"?

    "Really, it may seem petty, but glaring grammatical errors like this are an immediate turn-off. I read stuff like this and immediately assume the author is a nitwit and don't bother reading further."

    Could not have said it better myself.

  8. Re:Then vs Than by datafr0g · · Score: 2, Funny
    Really, it may seem petty, but glaring grammatical errors like this are an immediate turn-off. I read stuff like this and immediately assume the author is a nitwit and don't bother reading further.
    THAN I loaded up the post in my browser, THAN I saw something that was a more unnecessary post THEN usual... another bloody typo complaint. THAN I replied in a suitably smartarse fashion.

    - A nitwit
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  9. Re:A Boeing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Boeing teapot.

  10. Re:A Boeing? by mobby_6kl · · Score: 2, Funny

    CEO