Linux Developer Claims 100x Performance Increase in Ray Tracing after Adding Missing Code to Intel Arc Driver

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Linux developer Lionel Landwerlin is a graphics driver engineer who identified a bit of missing code in the open-source Intel Arc driver. The Intel Vulkan RT code change was only one...

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[GunShot]

Yeah, I remember all the salt that the MSM (Igor's Lab, NYT, ComputerBase, TweakTown, etc.) had poured on Arc's early performance metrics (mainly because some very entitled journalists felt privileged and were angry at Intel for its choices to give Arc early samples first to China, Linus, etc. ) and I kept saying that some of these early perf numbers just didn't make any sense.

I remember a time when investigative tech, etc. journalists ONLY reported their findings, but never forced their OPINION as fact, for their pieces. But today, though, wow, many journalists try to ~ tell ~ their readers HOW to decipher it or that reader would be shunned.