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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. 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

  2. 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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    time is a perception of a being's consciousness
    time is your 6th sense, the wierd ones are 7+
  3. What I would like to see by narcolepticjim · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is the Beowulf movie rendered with a cluster of these.

  4. 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!