OptiX

Feb 06, 2025
Render Path-Traced Hair in Real Time with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs
Hardware support for ray tracing triangle meshes was introduced as part of NVIDIA RTX in 2018. But ray tracing for hair and fur has remained a compute-intensive...
9 MIN READ

Dec 17, 2024
Efficient Ray Tracing with NVIDIA OptiX Shader Binding Table Optimization
NVIDIA OptiX is the API for GPU-accelerated ray tracing with CUDA, and is often used to render scenes containing a wide variety of objects and materials. During...
11 MIN READ

Aug 07, 2023
Flexible and Powerful Ray Tracing with NVIDIA OptiX 8
In the realm of computer graphics, achieving photorealistic visuals has been a long-sought goal. NVIDIA OptiX is a powerful and flexible ray-tracing framework,...
4 MIN READ

Feb 28, 2023
Just Released: NVIDIA Nsight Compute 2023.1
NVIDIA Nsight Compute 2023.1 adds more metrics and usability to the source view, a sample for shared memory banks, and improves the application replay...
1 MIN READ

Jun 01, 2022
Writing Ray Tracing Applications in Python Using the Numba Extension for PyOptiX
Ray tracing is a rendering algorithm that can generate photorealistic images by simulating how light transmits and interacts with different materials. Today, it...
14 MIN READ

Nov 08, 2021
Latest NVIDIA OptiX Renders Ray Tracing Faster Than Ever Before
NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Engine is a scalable and seamless framework that offers optimal ray tracing performance on GPUs. In this fall update to the NVIDIA...
7 MIN READ

Oct 19, 2021
Explore the Latest in Graphics with Professional Visualization Sessions at NVIDIA GTC
The latest breakthroughs in graphics technologies are elevating workflows across industries—and you can experience it all at the NVIDIA GTC, begins November...
3 MIN READ

Nov 20, 2019
How to Get Started with OptiX 7
The evolution of a production-tested high performance ray tracing API Image courtesy of ©...
20 MIN READ

Oct 10, 2018
Introduction to Real-Time Ray Tracing with Vulkan
NVIDIA’s new Turing GPU unleashed real-time ray-tracing in a consumer GPU for the first time. Since then, much virtual ink has been spilled discussing ray...
16 MIN READ

Apr 02, 2018
NVIDIA OptiX Ray Tracing Powered by RTX
Ray Tracing vs Rasterization Conventional 3D rendering has typically used a process called rasterization since the 1990s. Rasterization uses objects created...
14 MIN READ

Mar 12, 2015
HPC Visualization on NVIDIA Tesla GPUs
HPC looks very different today than it did when I was a graduate student in the mid-90s. Today's supercomputers are many orders of magnitude faster than the...
13 MIN READ

Nov 18, 2014
Interactive Supercomputing with In-Situ Visualization on Tesla GPUs
So, you just got access to the latest supercomputer with thousands of GPUs. Obviously this is going to help you a lot with accelerating your scientific...
13 MIN READ