By Joe Osborne
If you’ve yet to see Epic Games’ amazing demo of ray tracing graphics technology using Star Wars: The Last Jedi characters, go ahead and watch below. Just know that, while these incredible visuals were rendered in real time, they cost at least $60,000 to make.
Epic Games detailed the technology behind its awesome demonstration (seen below) in a blog post, name-dropping Nvidia and Disney’s Industrial Light and Magic xLAB as collaborators on the project, with Nvidia’s contribution being one of its $60,000 DGX Station computers.
These high-end workstation computers are equipped with a whopping four Nvidia Tesla V100 graphics cards (with a total of 64GB of video memory), a 20-core Intel Xeon processor, several terabytes of storage and an insane 256GB of DDR4 memory – all drawing up to 1,500 watts of power.
Ray tracing: a bit more far flung of a future?
Ray tracing is a hyper-realistic, dynamic lighting technology that has long existed in the realm of computer-generated film-making, where visuals are rendered once and then become a simple video file. For this tech to finally be on the horizon for video games – all of which have to render their visuals in …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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