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AMD HIP RT 2.4 Brings H-PLOC & New Graphics Architecture Support

([Radeon] 101 Minutes Ago AMD HIP RT 2.4)


AMD's GPUOpen team has released HIP RT 2.4 as the newest version of this open-source ray-tracing library built atop their HIP interface.

AMD HIP RT 2.4 introduces a new H-PLOC algorithm implementation for the library. In addition to addinh H-PLOC, the wide BVH conversion code has been improved.

In making HIP RT easier to build and manage by developers, HIP RT 2.4 adds CMake build system support for benefiting both Windows and Linux systems.

The HIP RT 2.4 release notes also mention there is new graphics architecture support with this version, but without detailing what new graphics architecture support there is... Presumably RDNA 3.5 Strix Point and/or early RDNA4 (GFX12) support. Unfortunately with the HIP RT source code being bundled up into just a one-version commit to their public GitHub repository, it's not as useful for analyzing the changes in the version for quickly seeing the architecture additions.

The AMD HIP RT 2.4 release can be downloaded from [1]GPUOpen.com for those interested in ray-tracing with HIP. AMD HIP RT has been [2]open-source since earlier in the year .



[1] https://gpuopen.com/hiprt/

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-HIP-Ray-Tracing-RT-Open



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