Practical Tips for Optimizing Ray Tracing

Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/practical-tips-for-optimizing-ray-tracing/

To achieve high efficiency with ray tracing, you must build a pipeline that scales well at every stage. This starts from mesh instance selection and their data processing towards optimized tracing and shading of every hit that you encounter. Instance data generation In a common scene, there can be far more static than dynamic objects.…