Re:The wow of water rendering
by theandrewbailey on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @12:34PM
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Nvidia's next architecture (Pascal?) will move GPU memory into the same package as the GPU itself, giving an instant ~3x boost.
But naively this is 30 min per frame render time, which is 1800 sec, wanna get that down to about 1/25th of a sec, that's a 45000x improvement in computation required. How long will that take? Well assuming GPU's get twice as fast every year, then it will take still 16-17 years! Luckily we have those shortcuts.
However it's possible we may have a quantum leap in computer performance if the new Memristor architecture ever takes off, which could speed things up.