GravityMark 1.44 Released With Ray-Tracing Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GravityMark 1.44 Released With Ray-Tracing Support

Those wanting to enjoy some impressive Vulkan ray-traced visuals on Linux (and macOS or Windows) now have GravityMark to add to the list of Linux-native ray-traced software for testing...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...avityMark-1.44

[sireangelus]

the thing that's more incredible is how it does not use any cpu at all. completely gpu-dependant. even with a million asteroids on screen.

[birdie]

the thing that's more incredible is how it does not use any cpu at all. completely gpu-dependant. even with a million asteroids on screen.

GPUs are called Graphics Processing Units for a reason

https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/...rogrammability

Geometry shaders are now at the very least 15 years old. Modern desktop CPUs cannot even process all the geometry in games if you dare to do it:

[pete910]

GPUs are called Graphics Processing Units for a reason

https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/...rogrammability

Geometry shaders are now at the very least 15 years old. Modern desktop CPUs cannot even process all the geometry in games if you dare to do it:

Yes they are but there is an awful lot on benchmarks ect that use little to no CPU that still benefit a faster CPU

[Black_Fox]

What do I have to do to run the ray tracing part on an RX 6700 XT?

export RADV_PERFTEST=rt; ./run_fullscreen_vk_rt.sh

results in "Ray Tracing support is required". Running kernel 5.15, Mesa 22-git.

[Michael]

What do I have to do to run the ray tracing part on an RX 6700 XT?

export RADV_PERFTEST=rt; ./run_fullscreen_vk_rt.sh

results in "Ray Tracing support is required". Running kernel 5.15, Mesa 22-git.

As mentioned in the article, it doesn't work on RADV due to RADV not yet having Vulkan ray queries support.

[Black_Fox]

As mentioned in the article, it doesn't work on RADV due to RADV not yet having Vulkan ray queries support.

Oh dear, that's one paragraph I apparently didn't read at all! Sorry and thanks for the pointer.

[Quackdoc]

free gpu benchmark that has RT support? Awesome. Love to see free benchmarks

[sireangelus]

there is something wrong going on with shadows. The shadows on the planet move with the camera instead of following the light source.

[mazumoto]

Hm, is BNieuwenhuizen still working on Raytracing support? Everything I tried didn't work about a month ago (Cyberpunk 2077, Doom Eternal and possibly another game I forgot), resulting in GPU hangs and crashes on my RX 6900XT.