Sony patents method for “significant improvement of ray tracing speed”

Special hardware units handle ray traversal, freeing up the GPU shaders.

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Sony's New Patent Could Accelerate Ray Tracing

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VGC: Mark Cerny's new patent could reveal plans of improving ray tracing performance on PS5 (edit: probably not to do with the PS5)

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Sony patents method for “significant improvement of ray tracing speed”

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