Quote Originally Posted by trinibwoy View Post
Or 3D rendering APIs become more generalized and there will be no such thing as a "3D architecture" anymore since everything will be software based with maybe a few legacy hardware bits for texture mapping / decompression.

I would bet money that Nvidia's launch for Fermi will include a ray-tracing demo.
physics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyg9HgiD8X0
ray tracing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAZQl...eature=channel
this is an older demo, now it just runs at a good fps. note how badly it destroys larrabee's demo.