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[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Rather than have someone paint a light and shadow to lighten the weight of processing graphics on your machine they are leaving ai to do it.

AI comes with a price. Which is why bit coin was the problem on energy grid. In the case of raytracing it's nailing your pc hard and it offers no gain

[-] Pipoca@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Ray tracing isn't about AI, it's about the physics of photons.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sure not going to argue. Though it is still drawing on computing power much how ai does which is the point of the post pointing out how it drives hard on gaming boxes.

You can go back to measuring marios inseam now.

[-] Pipoca@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

That makes about as much sense as saying that a truck and excavator both draw a lot on engine power, so, same difference.

Or that both ray tracing and brute force decryption require a lot of compute so they're basically the same.

[-] quaver@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Although in this case Nvidia's ray-tracing does actually utilize AI. Both for image upscaling as well as (iirc) optimizing the number of rays needed to be cast for a mostly accurate image.

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