Dade wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:18 am
Fu@k small and quality of life features, I will add CUDA/Optix support has an option to the poll
Probably you wrote with a smile on face, but as I can't see you, I can't understand the reason why supporting CUDA/Optix exclude "small and quality of life features"?
Because supporting CUDA needs to rewrite everything and so, before add feature you prefer to make this "switch" or because your development time will be full drained by this CUDA/Optix support?
Which benefit will have us with this? (and consider I'm with Nvidia in any PC I use)
marcatore wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:28 am
Probably you wrote with a smile on face, but as I can't see you, I can't understand the reason why supporting CUDA/Optix exclude "small and quality of life features"?
Because supporting CUDA needs to rewrite everything and so, before add feature you prefer to make this "switch" or because your development time will be full drained by this CUDA/Optix support?
Yes, it is not a small undertaking, it will cost a lot of time so, given the limited amount of time/resources, it would delay the development of other stuff.
marcatore wrote: ↑Tue Oct 01, 2019 9:28 am
Which benefit will have us with this? (and consider I'm with Nvidia in any PC I use)
An hypothetical LuxCore "PATHRTX" render engine is likely to run quite faster than current LuxCore "PATHOCL" render engine on NVIDIA RTX GPUs (the one with hardware acceleration). It may also run a bit faster on older NVIDIA GPUs supported by OptiX (because their code is likely to be faster than our generic OpenCL code even without RTX hardware).
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As opencl is an open standar what is going to be set as a replacement worldwide not only for luxcore ?
The only hope is to have Intel come out with a really good GPU (very unlikely, given their endless number of past failures) and, at that point, they will need to expose their hardware trough some computing standard to fight CUDA. But it probably easier to win at lottery...
Support LuxCoreRender project with salts and bounties
The only hope is to have Intel come out with a really good GPU (very unlikely, given their endless number of past failures) and, at that point, they will need to expose their hardware trough some computing standard to fight CUDA. But it probably easier to win at lottery...