[Discussion] Nvidia Patents Smarter Raytraced Shadows And Lighting

Aranzor

Expert
  • Two new Nvidia patents aim to reduce GPU loads and improve gaming performance, likely for a future GPU lineup.
  • The first one discusses smarter ray-traced shadows that use shadow maps to estimate where they should fall.
  • The second patent talks about calculating lighting by organizing them into grids and sampling them more efficiently.

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