"I've seen the announcement from Imagination technologies earlier in the week, but I wanted to take a look at their Ray-Tracing demos and presentations to get a better idea. I finally got an opportunity to do so, and I really liked what I saw. The latest PowerVR GPU architecture has a new Ray Tracing Unit (or RTU) that can trace the path of light rays from one surface to another in order to accelerate a number of graphics techniques going from shadowing, reflections to visibility algorithm and more." ( Hubert Nguyen, http://www.ubergizmo.com/2014/03/powervr-series-6- wizard-gpu-ray-tracing/ )
"Now that the dust has settled over GDC 2014, we have started collecting and analyzing the coverage from the launch of our ray tracing PowerVR Wizard GPU..."
( Alexandru Voica, http://blog.imgtec.com/news/launching-ray-tracing- powervr-wizard-gpus-gdc-2014 )
(Score: 4, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Saturday April 12 2014, @04:41PM
No thanks. Intel crippled an entire line of Atom CPU's with PowerVR making them useless for running Linux or even 64 bit Windows.
Unless PowerVR is going to open drivers or provide proprietary drivers like Nvidia, I'll pass on their tech.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Marand on Saturday April 12 2014, @11:53PM
Completely agreed. When I saw this last month at the Register [theregister.co.uk] I thought the same thing. It looks interesting, but even if it's an incredible breakthrough that can revolutionise 3d rendering, it's useless until they provide better driver support than they currently do.