OptiX

Interactive ray tracing on NVIDIA Quadro professional graphics solutions
The NVIDIA® OptiX™ ray tracing engine elevates applications to a new level of interactive realism by greatly increasing ray tracing speeds on NVIDIA® Quadro® professional graphics solutions using the NVIDIA® CUDA™ GPU computing architecture. What traditionally took minutes in software now takes milliseconds with the OptiX engine, allowing designers to interactively examine the play of light, reflection, refraction and shadow within real-world scenes on industry standard hardware.

Unlike a renderer with a prescribed look, or a language limited to rendering, the OptiX engine is a flexible ray tracing platform enabling developers to quickly build whatever they wish. Flexibility within the OptiX engine extends to procedural definitions and hybrid rendering approaches, that can be leveraged to ensure the most accurate of rendering results and balance realism with speed.

While the potential of ultra-fast ray tracing is being immediately recognized by those serving automotive styling, design visualization, and visual effects, the OptiX engine is also being leveraged in non-rendering disciplines such as optical & acoustical design, radiation research, and collision analysis – wherever ray tracing techniques are employed.

An interactive ray trace renderer powered by the OptiX engine will be available to applications using the NVIDIA® SceniX™ engine this Autumn, and will begin appearing within products as developers rapidly enable it within their applications. As an NVIDIA acceleration engine, software developers can freely use OptiX within their products for ray tracing on Quadro GPUs, and maintain cutting-edge performance by adopting engine updates that exploit future GPU advances.

To experience the OptiX engine in action, try a sampling of what the SDK provides: Interactive OptiX Examples

If you would like to integrate OptiX into your application, please visit our developer site for additional technical information and access to the software developer kit: OptiX Developer Information