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Step aside graphics cards, you can now run ray tracing on a CPU [ 1fps (one frame per second) with 34% CPU and 0% GPU utilisation] (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Before The Sims, I used to play with this program that was meant for architects designing homes, but 9-year-old me treated it like a game. It had a ray tracing button that when pressed, would render a ray-traced view of the room you were in.

It took at least a couple of minutes on my dad's Windows 95 PC to render a single frame, and if you moved the camera at all, the view would switch back to raster and you had to re-render the scene all over again. But it was real ray tracing, performed on the CPU, in the 90s.