On 6/05/2020 03:31, Kima wrote:
> I understand that most of rendering tasks are too complicated for GPU cores, and
> fit the CPU capability. However, I was unable to find any recent discussion on
> this matter. In the last 10 years, the GPU technology and its interfacing
> software have been massively advanced.

GPU's have improved somewhat but are still hampered by the poor
precision of their floating-point arithmetic (I don't know of any
consumer devices that do anything better than 64-bit). Given that
POV-Ray has to deal with floating-point precision issues even with
80-bit FPU's I feel that using GPU's at the current technology level
would be a step backwards in quality.

There may be some scope to offloading some bounding box calculations to
GPU's if we modified the code sufficiently that we could batch thousands
of them at once, however that would be a significant change and would
still not relieve the native FPU of the bulk of the work.

-- Chris

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