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Understanding the efficiency of ray traversal on GPUs

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Aila, Timo Laine, Samuli
Abstract	We discuss the mapping of elementary ray tracing operations---acceleration structure traversal and primitive intersection---onto wide SIMD/SIMT machines. Our focus is on NVIDIA GPUs, but some of the observations should be valid for other wide machines as well. While several fast GPU tracing methods have been published, very little is actually understood about their performance. Nobody knows whether the methods are anywhere near the theoretically obtainable limits, and if not, what might be causing the discrepancy. We study this question by comparing the measurements against a simulator that tells the upper bound of performance for a given kernel. We observe that previously known methods are a factor of 1.5--2.5X off from theoretical optimum, and most of the gap is not explained by memory bandwidth, but rather by previously unidentified inefficiencies in hardware work distribution. We then propose a simple solution that significantly narrows the gap between simulation and measurement. This results in the fastest GPU ray tracer to date. We provide results for primary, ambient occlusion and diffuse interreflection rays.
Starting Page	145
Ending Page	149
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781605586038
DOI	10.1145/1572769.1572792
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2009-08-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Ray tracing Simd Simt
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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