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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by swiley on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:54PM (#25130436)
We've been able to do realtime ray tracing in software since forever though and the shadertoys and whatnot have been full of hardware accelerated demos, that's not so interesting.

I remember playing with a number of demos on my intel core 2 duo macbook (not pro) a decade ago.

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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by bmurphy1976 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @09:20PM (#25132462)
They weren't doing that in hardware real time accelerated at 4k resolution in AAA games. This year they are. That's a big leap from your core 2 duo demos.
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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by nitrogen on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:45PM (#25130943)
The new GPUs have hardware specifically designed to do the type of math that raytracing does, such as ray/volume intersections, faster or more efficiently than generic shader hardware. Sufficient quantity (FLOPS) can become a quality of its own.
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