Just out of curiosty, can RT cores be able to perform arithmetic operations?

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Lets say I have some arithmetic operations, can I use RT cores to compute it?

Anyone tried doing this?

I have a RTX 3080 TI GPU, would suck for not able to use the RT cores for AI/ML tasks while using CUDA and Tensor cores.

Thanks.

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Hi @rajhlinux, no, RT cores are fixed-function components designed for ray tracing (BVH traversal and geometry intersections), not available for general-purpose arithmetic. You use them via OptiX, Vulkan, DXR. You can of course use CUDA cores (and to some extent Tensor cores) for general math ops.