NVIDIA has just released the OptiX SDK.
OptiX is a real time and programmable ray tracer optimized for GPUs. Three news demos (glass, Whirligig, Ambient Occlusion) are available on OptiX ray tracing engine examples page.
I managed to run the first OptiX demos on a GeForce GTX 295 but this time seems NVIDIA has updated the if_not_quadro_then_bye_bye() detection code and the new demos don’t work anymore on the GTX 295.
SDK Requirements
- Operating System: 32 or 64-bit versions of Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Linux
- CPU: x86 compatible
- GPU: NVIDIA Quadro FX or NVIDIA Tesla (GT200 class required for multi-GPU scaling and technical support) – NVIDIA GeForce to be supported with NVIDIA’s upcoming “Fermi” GPU architecture.
- Driver: NVIDIA Unified Driver r190 or later, CUDA toolkit 2.3 or later
- C/C++ Compiler: Visual Studio 2005 or 2008, along with CMAKE
Related links
Give us Fermi already! 😀
only tesla and quadro… baah… 🙁
NVidia should stop the stupid marketing bubble with the Quadro products, we all now that they are basically GeForce cards with a better packaging..
Shame on them..
It does not work on “normal” GeForces… what a mess.
found @
http://blogs.nvidia.com/ntersect/2009/11/ray-tracing-developers-start-your-acceleration-engines-optix-api-now-available.html
“Also, while today’s release requires NVIDIA’s professional solutions of Quadro FX and NVIDIA Tesla, the OptiX engine will soon expand its support to include NVIDIA GeForce GPUs with Fermi, as forthcoming performance will make ray tracing possible in consumer applications.”
I would be more happy if they make available NEXUS Beta. Waiting for it…
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/optix-beta.html
Support for geforce has arrived!
Thanks Leith, I’ll post a new asap!