Component · Compute & AI Hardware
Ray tracing core
A fixed-function GPU unit that accelerates bounding volume hierarchy traversal and ray-triangle intersection tests, the two dominant costs in real-time ray traced rendering.
- Also known as
- RT core, Ray accelerator
- Type
- Component
- Domain
- Compute & AI Hardware, GPU architecture
Notes
Irrelevant to AI workloads but a large part of the die area and price of consumer GPUs also bought for inference.
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