3D Raytracing Chip Shown at CeBIT

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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Re:Hardware encoding

[cheese_wallet]

sed -e "s/should potentially/will/"

That depends on a lot of factors. There are a lot of optimized structures in a xilinx part that a lot of fabs don't have in their libraries. Potentially negated if you are doing full custom, and are good at it.