Programmable ray tracing with hardware acceleration on graphics processor

• Main Authors: GIERACH JOHN G, MAJEWSKI PAWEL, SURTI PRASOONKUMAR, WOOP SVEN, LIKTOR GABOR, BENTHIN CARSTEN, VAIDYANATHAN, KARTHIK, ROUX THIERRY, LEE WON-JONG
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 04.06.2024
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS

An apparatus and method for programmable ray tracing with hardware acceleration on a graphics processor. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processor includes shader execution circuitry to execute a plurality of programmable ray tracing shaders. The shader execution circuit includes a plurali...