Ray tracing GPU?

[McSquizzy]

Are there any plans to shift Ray Tracing from CPU cores to GPU cores? With 1,500 GPU cores you could probably parallel process the rays faster than on 4 CPU cores. 

[O.Tan]

And if possible make it be multi-gpu as well! 

[colin.smith]

We will be releasing local background rendering in an upcoming release.

[McSquizzy]

Nice! Looking forward to using it

[O.Tan]

Hmm, so Fusion background render will use both GPU and CPU?

[anonperson]

Glad this is happening.  Using my gaming PC for Fusion at the moment, and it's GPU (GTX970) is much more powerful than it's CPU (3.6GHz dual core). 😉

[cekuhnen]

Yeah I left years ago CPU rendering and switched fully to GPU - I will never go back to that slow technology.

[colin.smith]

Local rendering will use the current interactive renderer (RRT) and create a background process. 

[anonperson]

Thanks for the info @colin.smith.  That's probably a bit opaque for the non-Fusion 360 developers here.  What's a "current interactive renderer (RRT)"? 🙂

[colin.smith]

Hi @anonperson

The RRT (Rapid Ray Tracer) is the same rendering engine you use when you start the current interactive renderer.

There is a project underway to add background rendering on the desktop using the interative renderer as the rendering engine.

Colin

[anonperson]

Thanks Colin, that explains it well. 🙂

[eformanceng]

Since the forum does not timestamp comments, I wanted to know what the current status of GPU ray tracing is, as of Dec 2nd, 2015?

Thanks.

[jacksonknifeandtool]

I am also wondering the status of gpu rendering and multi gpu support. I have a couple of gtx970's that should outpace my cpu.

 it's 12/3/2015. 

[jamespal]

Its been a while since this thread was created, but will the new real time raytracing abilities of the Quadro RTX or Titan RTX be able to be used to speed up final production renders as well?