OptiX
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OptiX
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Nvidia OptiX is a ray tracing API that was first developed around 2009. The computations are offloaded to the GPUs through either the low-level or the high-level API introduced with CUDA. CUDA is only available for Nvidia's graphics products. Nvidia OptiX is part of Nvidia GameWorks. OptiX is a high-level, or "to-the-algorithm" API, meaning that it is designed to encapsulate the entire algorithm of which ray tracing is a part, not just the ray tracing itself. This is meant to allow the OptiX eng
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encyclopedia
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Nvidia ray tracing API using CUDA to compute on GPUs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OptiX
date created:
2009-11-29T13:51:42Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T08:57:35Z
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