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NVIDIA RTXPT 1.9 Path Tracer Gets Around 20% Faster, Adds Windows on Arm Support

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NVIDIA has released version 1.9.0 of RTX Path Tracing (RTXPT), its open-source reference path tracer on GitHub , claiming roughly 20% better performance than the previous 1.8.1 release, with…

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