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About this paper
Daniel Meister, Jakub Bokšanský, Michael Guthe, Jiří Bittner
This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of ray reordering techniques on NVIDIA's RTX hardware, confirming that ray coherence is still critical for GPU ray tracing performance. It introduces a new 'Two Point Adaptive' sorting method and identifies that while ray sorting significantly accelerates the ray trace kernel (1.3-2.0x speedup), the overall rendering time is currently bottlenecked by the data reordering overhead rather than the tracing or sorting itself.
Key insights
- Ray coherence remains critically important for GPU ray tracing performance even with dedicated hardware acceleration units.
- The primary bottleneck for ray reordering on modern RTX hardware has shifted from the sorting algorithm to the data reordering (scattered memory writes) phase.
- Relatively simple adaptive estimation techniques for ray termination points can achieve near-optimal coherence and performance benefits for ray sorting.
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