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Real-time ray-tracing promises to bring new levels of realism to in-game graphics. Image source: Underwriter Labs. Ray tracing, as experts know, is a simple algorithm that can totally consume a processor. But how much a given processor is consumed is an unanswerable...
The original use and development for the GPU was to accelerate 3D games and rendering.
Ever since it came into being during 1970s, the computer graphics (CG) industry has been a mixed bag of technologies, users, and applications, and has had for the most part a consistent (and lumpy) growth record.