Caustic Graphics, a small startup out of San Francisco, is promising exponentially faster raytracing as early as next year. Founded by a group of former Apple engineers, the new company is touting its CausticOne graphics accelerator card as the solution to the sluggish raytracing techniques currently available. For years, the rendering option of choice for the gaming industry has been rasterization. Raytracing is a wholly different approach, which holds promise for more realistic graphics. The trade off with raytracing is that it requires much more processing muscle than rasterization.
Intel has been one company behind raytracing, but its demos are completely reliant on the current CPU/GPU setup. The tech giant’s position on raytracing is that its CPUs can handle raytracing while also handling other general purpose duties.
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