GTC Digital Demo: “Blender Cycles: RTX On” Highlights New AI Features
Blender Cycles, an open-source production renderer, is now super-charged with the latest generation of NVIDIA RTX GPUs. … Read more
Category Archives: Graphics / Simulation
GTC Digital: Graphics / Simulation Presentations, Demos, and Posters
Explore how the latest advances in AI, virtual and augmented reality, real-time ray tracing, graphics virtualization, and mobile edge computing drive faster performance, improve project outcomes, and revolutionize workflows. … Read more
DLSS 2.0: A Big Leap in AI Rendering
Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) is an NVIDIA RTX technology that uses the power of deep learning and AI to boost frame rates while generating beautiful, sharp images for your games. … Read more
Announcing the NVIDIA Texture Tools Exporter 2020.1
We’re releasing the free NVIDIA Texture Tools Exporter, the new version of our DDS texture compression tool, available both as a standalone application and as a plugin for Adobe Photoshop. … Read more
RTX Global Illumination SDK Now Available
The RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) SDK is now available. With the RTXGI SDK, game developers and artists can leverage the power of ray tracing to achieve multi-bounce global illumination without bake times, light leaks, or prohibitive run-time performance requirements. … Read more
NVIDIA Announces Nsight Graphics 2020.2
Nsight Graphics 2020.2 is now available for download. We've added a number of features that dramatically expand the functionality of our tools when it comes to Vulkan, as well as making some great improvements to developer workflows for Microsoft Visual Studio users. … Read more
Developer Blog: Bringing HLSL Ray Tracing to Vulkan
Many developers port content from DirectX to Vulkan to take advantage of broader market reach. However, porting a title requires porting both the API calls (to Vulkan) and the shaders (to SPIR-V). Here’s how to use HLSL shaders in an existing app, created in the Vulkan Ray Tracing Tutorial written by NVIDIA engineers. … Read more
Ray Tracing Essentials Part 4: The Ray Tracing Pipeline
In the fourth installment of our 'Ray Tracing Essentials' video series, NVIDIA’s Eric Haines runs through the ray tracing pipeline, including the five types of ray tracing shaders, and how they fit together. … Read more
Ray Tracing Essentials Part 3: Ray Tracing Hardware
In the third installment of our 'Ray Tracing Essentials' video series, NVIDIA's Eric Haines touches on the decades-long history of ray tracing hardware and explains modern acceleration techniques. … Read more
Ray Tracing Essentials Part 2: Rasterization versus Ray Tracing
In the second installment of our ‘Ray Tracing Essentials’ video series, NVIDIA’s Eric Haines, editor of Ray Tracing Gems, explains the key differences between rasterization and ray tracing. … Read more