On: The DooM-chip: no CPU, no opcodes, no instruction ...

[Keyframe]

What is old is new again: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20050614005701/en/ART...

[phkahler → Keyframe]

>> The AR350 ray-tracing chips process 66 million ray-triangle intersections per second per core.

I was doing 1.5 million Ray's per second against scenes with 100,000 polygons back then on an AMD64.

Acceleration structures are everything. Traversing them quickly and having dynamic updates is hard.