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		khalladay 32 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the cur... > Rendering a million photorealistic objects is not much more compute-intensive than rendering a hundred cartoon objects Surely ray/triangle intersection tests, brdf evaluation, acceleration structure rebuilds (when things move/animate) all would cost more in your photorealistic scenario than the cartoon scenario?

reactordev 32 days ago [–]

Matrix multiplication is all that is and GPUs are really good at doing that in parallel already.

oivey 32 days ago | [–]

So I guess there is no need to change any of the hardware, then? I think it might be more complicated than waving your hands around linear algebra.

reactordev 32 days ago | | [–]

Yes there is, to improve ray tracing…

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