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vivster on 14 June 2020
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Conina said:
JEMC said:

Ray Tracing expansion cards? Yeah, sure, like this approach worked so well for physic based cards in the past, right?

Good enough for a transition period, if it is easier/cheaper to separate it at first, also good for upgraders.

Floating-point-calculations were separated on co-processors (x87) a lot of years, until they were integrated in the main CPU.

3D-acceleration was separated on extra GPUs (3DFX) a few years.

Remember when they offloaded graphics calculations to expansion cards called GPUs? Good thing that never took root.



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