Performance Comparison of Bounding Volume Hierarchies and Kd-Trees for GPU Ray Tracing

We present a performance comparison of bounding volume hierarchies and kd‐trees for ray tracing on many‐core architectures (GPUs). The comparison is focused on rendering times and traversal characteristics on the GPU using data structures that were optimized for very high performance of tracing rays...

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Vydáno v:	Computer graphics forum Ročník 35; číslo 8; s. 68 - 79
Hlavní autoři:	Vinkler, Marek, Havran, Vlastimil, Bittner, Jiří
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2016
Témata:	Analysis Architecture Central processing units Computer architecture CPUs Criteria Data structures GPU Hierarchies I.3.1 [Computer Graphics]: Hardware architecture-Parallel processing I.3.6 [Computer Graphics]: Methodology and Techniques-Graphics data structures and data types I.3.7 [Computational Graphics]: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realism-Raytracing I.3.7 [Computational Graphics]: Three‐Dimensional Graphics and Realism—Raytracing; I.3.6 [Computer Graphics]: Methodology and Techniques—Graphics data structures and data types; I.3.1 [Computer Graphics]: Hardware architecture—Parallel processing Image processing systems object-partitioning Parallel processing Performance assessment performance comparison Profiling Ray tracing Rendering space-partitioning Studies
ISSN:	0167-7055, 1467-8659
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Shrnutí:	We present a performance comparison of bounding volume hierarchies and kd‐trees for ray tracing on many‐core architectures (GPUs). The comparison is focused on rendering times and traversal characteristics on the GPU using data structures that were optimized for very high performance of tracing rays. To achieve low rendering times, we extensively examine the constants used in termination criteria for the two data structures. We show that for a contemporary GPU architecture (NVIDIA Kepler) bounding volume hierarchies have higher ray tracing performance than kd‐trees for simple and moderately complex scenes. On the other hand, kd‐trees have higher performance for complex scenes, in particular for those with high depth complexity. Finally, we analyse the causes of the performance discrepancies using the profiling characteristics of the ray tracing kernels. We present a performance comparison of bounding volume hierarchies and kd‐trees for ray tracing on many‐core architectures (GPUs). The comparison is focused on rendering times and traversal characteristics on the GPU using data structures that were optimized for very high performance of tracing rays. To achieve low rendering times, we extensively examine the constants used in termination criteria for the two data structures. We show that for a contemporary GPU architecture (NVIDIA Kepler) bounding volume hierarchies have higher ray tracing performance than kd‐trees for simple and moderately complex scenes.
Bibliografie:	Czech Science Foundation - No. P202/12/2413 istex:85253D7BFC778759A349878547366788F4849F95 ark:/67375/WNG-6M1HG181-3 ArticleID:CGF12776 Czech Technical University in Prague - No. SGS13/214/OHK3/3T/13 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 14 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23
ISSN:	0167-7055 1467-8659
DOI:	10.1111/cgf.12776