GPU Ray Tracing

This page provides general resources for writing a ray tracer on the GPU, whether or not they rely on dedicated ray-tracing APIs or hardware. If you are interested in learning specifically about ray tracing hardware, see Ray Tracing APIs.

  • Megakernels Considered Harmful: Wavefront Path Tracing on GPUs (2013)

    Introduced wavefront path tracing

    • paper
    • classic
  • GPU path tracing tutorial series (2015)

    Blog post series on implementing path tracer on GPU