AMD previously announced that it will open source its Radeon ray tracing analysis tool and pass along its original codeGit HubTo share.
The relevant information of the Radeon ray tracing analysis tool was actually uploaded to GitHub in July this year, but at that time it was only stated that AMD had this tool ready for open source, and only recently the contents of the tool up to 96,000 lines of original code has been officially announced.
This tool is mainly to enable the AMD GPU to display real-time light and shadow tracking effects, and at the same time, it can further improve the overall computing performance. The announcement of the open source of this tool means that it will make everything simpler Real-time light and shadow tracking effects content is also expected to increase sales and usage demand for AMD’s Radeon series graphics cards.
According to AMD’s instructions, when creating real-time light and shadow tracking effects, developers should build their own acceleration structure in the past, and at the same time also need to understand the application interval and time end of the effects of light irradiation. too many overlapping overlay intervals are created in the process, the overall content will run Performance will be affected In addition, if the application interval and end time are not set correctly, some lighting effects will be abnormal and the image it will become unnatural.
Therefore, in the tool provided by AMD, the terrain of applying the ray effect will be divided into several parts, and the ray tracing effect required for different terrains can be analyzed more efficiently, and the overall processing efficiency can also be be improved.
If developers want to use this tool, they should install the latest graphics card driver from AMD and the old version of the driver should be removed cleanly to avoid unnecessary impact. In addition, the graphics card can only be used with Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards or above, and the operating system supports Windows 10 and above as well as Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and above, and also supports Microsoft DirectX 12 and the new API version Vulcan.
