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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. please support the arts. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://www.zetasystems.com

  2. Re:Just annonced by thepotoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...or until everyone on the internet learns to spell "Forver".

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  3. Re:high quality animation by donglekey · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you think a cluster of G5's (running what?), using outside cpu power or new untested hardware with no software support is going to help in 3D, you are probably in a for a rude awakening.

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