Work with usRendering and performance engineering for games, GPU research, and Evolve, our GPU and AI benchmark. Licensed on every major console platform, with team credits earned through our Embark engagement.
Traverse Games
Traverse Games / Co-development since 2021
Our engineers earned these credits through Traverse’s five-year engagement with Embark Studios. We bring that experience to game porting, platform engineering and co-development.
Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Battlefield Hardline, Star Wars Battlefront, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Need for Speed, Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, Rory McIlroy PGA Tour
Earlier at Nixxes: Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director’s Cut
DiRT 5
Samsung · Galaxy S24 ray-tracing demoSIGGRAPH Asia · 2022 & 2025 publicationsgpu-allocator · 19.2M downloads · Used in Firefox
From Imagination Technologies micro-benchmarks to Embark platform engineering and Samsung’s mobile graphics work. Public projects and publications are linked above.
Two labels. One curious team.
For studios and publishers
GamesRendering and performance engineering for games, and the console porting around it. Team credits on THE FINALS and ARC Raiders through our Embark engagement.
Explore Games servicesFor hardware and engine partners
ResearchNeural rendering, GPU architecture and pre-silicon R&D. Working implementations, measured in context.
Explore ResearchOur product
EvolveEvolve turns our benchmarking research into software you can license and run yourself. Compute, ray tracing, rasterization, drivers, energy, acceleration structures and work graphs, each workload configurable and repeatable.
Breda, Netherlands / Est. 2019
Our founder’s story
Meet the team behind TraverseI grew up in Breda, left for Stockholm to ship Battlefield and Mirror’s Edge at DICE, and came back. In 2019 I founded Traverse here to support GPU teams from early product development and pre-silicon research through every stage of silicon bring-up.
Today we’re 19 people, including 15 engineers, in the same city I started in. We build Evolve, the benchmark Qualcomm and Samsung run in-house, and we’ve done pre-silicon research for most of the hardware vendors on this page. Now we’re bringing that head start back to the studios we came from.
The mission hasn’t changed since day one: make Breda a game development powerhouse.
Traverse Research
Learned lighting, built into the renderer. Our mobile neural radiance caching implementation was published with Samsung at SIGGRAPH Asia 2025, connecting rendering research with hardware-aware performance modelling.
Traverse Research
Learned texture representations, from training to GPU decoding. We evaluate reconstruction quality, memory footprint and runtime cost alongside conventional texture-compression tools.
Traverse Research
Neural workloads inside the frame. We integrate operators, tensors, inference and training with the render graph, connecting Python model development and ONNX interchange to GPU execution.
Traverse Research
Learned material appearance, evaluated in a working renderer. NeuBTF, published at SIGGRAPH Asia 2022, explores neural compression and rendering of bidirectional texture functions.
Platforms & graphics technology
From console and mobile to desktop and handheld. We work across the platforms you ship on and the graphics APIs behind the frame.
Traverse Research
A shared environment for rendering research, GPU workloads and neural techniques.
Traverse Games
Our engineers earned credits on THE FINALS and ARC Raiders through Traverse’s five-year co-development engagement with Embark Studios.
Traverse Research
Investigating the quality, efficiency and memory trade-offs of neural bidirectional texture functions.
Traverse × Samsung / Mobile ray tracing
Samsung shared this Xclipse GPU demonstration on its official channel. Built in our Breda rendering framework, it shows our mobile ray-tracing collaboration in action.
Explore the Samsung collaboration
Graphics Programming ConferenceCo-founded by Jasper Bekkers, Johan Andersson and Matthäus Chajdas. GPC has brought rendering practitioners to Breda since 2024.
Explore GPC →
Traverse’s GPU allocator is part of Firefox’s graphics dependency stack. The download figure is the September 2026 crates.io snapshot.
See the open-source ecosystem →BVH construction, refit and driver integration for a desktop GPU vendor, evaluated in shipped game workloads rather than only isolated synthetic tests.
IntelContributing to Intel Labs’ Jungle Ruins research, bringing real-time path tracing to an animated scene of one trillion instanced triangles.
Credited in Anton Sochenov’s Intel Labs post ↗Real-time strand research in O3DE for a platform holder, covering capsule clustering, workload organisation and GPU execution strategies.
Applied IntuitionApplied Intuition run Unreal Engine on Linux. We built hardware ray tracing into their engine fork on Vulkan, and it is still in use years later.
Named in the Rust Foundation profile ↗ArmNeural Super Sampling research and integration with Arm, running inside Breda and Evolve rather than as a standalone inference demo.
Named in Arm’s announcement ↗Working with a mobile silicon vendor to investigate rendering performance through Evolve and neural radiance caching on their GPU.
“I really like the benchmark, the efficiency result is very nice for tweaking the GPU”
“Overall, love the benchmark and the new technologies it uses. Keep it up!”
“I’ve worked with Jasper and his team on four different occasions: Frostbite, SEED, Embark and GPC. I’d hire them again.”
“Traverse Research were a pleasure to work with. The custom Vulkan hardware ray tracing solution they built into our Linux-optimized Unreal Engine branch is still in use years later”
“Traverse Research has been a valued partner to us for over three years; deeply technical, consistently responsive, and genuinely invested in solving the hard problems alongside our team”
An initial 16-week commitment, including ramp-up. Four-week sprints, build reviews every two weeks, and direct access to the engineers in your pipeline.
How we work togetherInside Breda’s ReSTIR-based diffuse GI system, from candidate rays and temporal reuse to denoising and irradiance caching.
In this blog post, I’ll write about how I recreated the OIDN U-Net DNN using Rust and HLSL compute shaders, and about my time as an Intern at Traverse Research.
Traverse Research + Traverse Games
