AMD’s Former Ray Tracing Expert Joins Qualcomm’s DXR Team, Working On DX12.2 Features To Improve Adreno GPUs
AMD's former ray-tracing expert, Paritosh Kulkarni, has joined Qualcomm to work on the firm's DX12.2 support such as DXR for Adreno GPUs.
Qualcomm's Newest Recruit To Offer His RT Expertise For Adreno GPUs, Enhanced DX12.2 Features Such as DXR, Mesh Shaders, Work Graphs & Driver Optimizations In The Plans
Well, it looks like Qualcomm has stepped up when it comes to enhancing support for its Adreno GPUs for Snapdragon chips, whether they are intended for the mobile or Windows platform. The reason why Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips are popular in the markets is that they bring phenomenal AI computing performance onboard, which has given them the spotlight amid the "AI PC" hype in the industry. However, regarding other crucial departments, such as GPU capabilities, the integrated Adreno GPUs significantly lag behind competitors.
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It looks like Qualcomm has realized this gray point and has now recruited AMD's RT expert to bring his experience on board. In a post on X, Paritosh revealed that he will be joining Qualcomm's DXR driver prototyping team and working on enhanced features within the DX12.2 package. DX12.2 is a feature level in DirectX 12 Ultimate that has brought massive advancements in features such as ray tracing, work graphs & mesh shaders. At AMD, Paritosh was responsible for developing CPU/GPU-based path tracers along with AMD's "HIPRT" ray-tracing library.
Well, with Qualcomm receiving an RT expert in their Adreno R&D team, we do look to see further advancements made within the GPU ecosystem since, at its current state, Qualcomm won't manage to keep up with competitors.
We previously reported testing a Snapdragon X Elite SoC on the famous title "Control," where the processor achieved just 40 FPS, which was also under low settings. Hands-on testing by PCWorld reiterates the same point; hence, this shows that, for now, the Adreno platform
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