A new round of ray tracing benchmarks with 3DMark's Solar Bay suggests that Snapdragon phones have become much better at ray tracing.

Android Authority: 3DMark’s benchmarking suite has launched its first ray tracing test and we’ve run it on a bunch of phones

  • giant_smeeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 years ago

    The only argument you can really have is about die space. If fixed function hardware is on die for ray tracing.

    The chip could be cheaper or have a larger rasterization GPU block, AV1 encode block etc etc

      • giant_smeeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Of course. But it’s still an absolute physical trade off. There is only so much die space and power budget or cost. They will have traded something off.