OpenCL Path Tracking Demo using the AMD OpenCL Beta SDK

A new test application written using the ATI OpenCL SDK called SmallptGPU shows path-tracing, an optimized variation of ray tracing, shows the impressive performance of ATI cards.  The demonstration video below is running on the Radeon 4870, with impressive results, but the newer 5970 should be at least 4x faster.  Also, the OpenCL renderer will automatically take advantage and scale across as many cards as you can install in your system.

See the demonstration video after the break.

OpenCL path tracer / ray tracing demo using the AMD OpenCL Beta SDK | FireUser Blog.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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