{"id":460,"date":"2009-11-03T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2009-11-03T19:06:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T01:06:31","slug":"nvidia-optix-ray-tracing-api-available-kind-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/nvidia-optix-ray-tracing-api-available-kind-of\/","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA Optix ray-tracing API available &#8211; kind of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve written about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\">NVIDIA<\/a> Optix ray-tracing API (which used to be called NVIRT) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/nvirt-a-mini-blog-and-creating-games\/\">once<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/nvirt-slide\/\">twice<\/a> before.\u00a0 Well, today <a href=\"http:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/object\/optix-home.html\">it is finally available<\/a> &#8211; for free.\u00a0 While it&#8217;s very nice of NVIDIA to make this available, there are a few caveats.<\/p>\n<p>We already knew Optix would only work on NVIDIA hardware (duh), but the system requirements reveal another unwelcome fact; it does not even run on GeForce cards, only Tesla and Quadro (which are significantly more expensive than GeForce despite being based on exactly the same chips).\u00a0 They say GeForce will be supported on their new Fermi architecture &#8211; I call shenanigans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve written about the NVIDIA Optix ray-tracing API (which used to be called NVIRT) once or twice before.\u00a0 Well, today it is finally available &#8211; for free.\u00a0 While it&#8217;s very nice of NVIDIA to make this available, there are a few caveats. We already knew Optix would only work on NVIDIA hardware (duh), but the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,265,264],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-nvidia","tag-optix","tag-shenanigans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}