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Evolve, our GPU and AI benchmark. Team credits on THE FINALS and ARC Raiders through our Embark engagement. Published rendering research and hardware partnerships. We are licensed on every major console platform.

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A workload render from Evolve, our GPU and AI benchmark.
A workload render from Evolve, our GPU and AI benchmark.

Traverse Research

Evolve

Our GPU and AI benchmark. Traverse’s own product, launched in March 2025, run in-house by Qualcomm and Samsung and independently evaluated by LTT Labs.

NVIDIA’s Zorah scene, hybrid-rendered in Traverse’s Breda framework.
NVIDIA’s Zorah scene, hybrid-rendered in Traverse’s Breda framework.

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Inside the Breda framework

A shared environment for rendering research, GPU workloads and neural techniques.

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Engineering with Embark Studios

Our engineers earned credits on THE FINALS and ARC Raiders through Traverse’s five-year co-development engagement with Embark Studios.

Ray tracing on and off in the Xclipse GPU demo. Source: Samsung’s official channel.
Ray tracing on and off in the Xclipse GPU demo. Source: Samsung’s official channel.

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Ray tracing on Galaxy S24

Ray-traced reflections, global illumination and shadows running in real time on Samsung’s Galaxy S24 and its Xclipse GPU, shown publicly.

NeuBTF research imagery published by Traverse Research.
NeuBTF research imagery published by Traverse Research.

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Neural material representation

Investigating the quality, efficiency and memory trade-offs of neural bidirectional texture functions.

Engineering schematic: architecture question, controlled workload, evaluation and iteration.
Engineering schematic: architecture question, controlled workload, evaluation and iteration.

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Pre-silicon ray tracing with Imagination

Traverse’s founding engagement built micro-benchmarks and a ray-tracing benchmark suite for hardware that had not yet shipped.

The Breda acceleration-structure playground: builder, rebraiding and sorting algorithms on the left, BLAS and TLAS statistics on the right, over a BVH-coloured scene.
The Breda acceleration-structure playground: builder, rebraiding and sorting algorithms on the left, BLAS and TLAS statistics on the right, over a BVH-coloured scene.

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Acceleration-structure research in a GPU driver

BVH construction, refit and driver integration for a desktop GPU vendor, evaluated in shipped game workloads rather than only isolated synthetic tests.

Arm Neural Technology announcement artwork. Source: Arm Newsroom, 12 August 2025.
Arm Neural Technology announcement artwork. Source: Arm Newsroom, 12 August 2025.

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Neural graphics with Arm

Neural Super Sampling research and integration with Arm, running inside Breda and Evolve rather than as a standalone inference demo.

O3DE
Open 3D Engine, the engine this work was built in. Logo: O3DE brand guidelines.

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Real-time hair-strand rendering in O3DE

Real-time strand research in O3DE for a platform holder, covering capsule clustering, workload organisation and GPU execution strategies.

Overlapping Gaussian elements.
Overlapping Gaussian elements.

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Ray-traced Gaussians for a GPU vendor

Comparing Gaussian rendering approaches, image quality and shadow behaviour in a ray-tracing research programme for a desktop GPU vendor.

Ray-traced reflections in Applied Intuition’s sensor simulation. Source: Applied Intuition, Ray tracing and Vulkan boost sensor data.
Ray-traced reflections in Applied Intuition’s sensor simulation. Source: Applied Intuition, Ray tracing and Vulkan boost sensor data.

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Vulkan ray tracing in Unreal Engine on Linux

Applied 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.

Evolve
Evolve, our GPU and AI benchmark, is the workload this partner runs.

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Evolve and neural workloads on mobile silicon

Working with a mobile silicon vendor to investigate rendering performance through Evolve and neural radiance caching on their GPU.

Jungle Ruins, fully path traced in real time. Intel Labs, Path Tracing a Trillion Triangles, figure 1.
Jungle Ruins, fully path traced in real time. Intel Labs, Path Tracing a Trillion Triangles, figure 1.

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One trillion triangles

Contributing to Intel Labs’ Jungle Ruins research, bringing real-time path tracing to an animated scene of one trillion instanced triangles.

Volumetric rendering research from Traverse’s published archive.
Volumetric rendering research from Traverse’s published archive.

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Animated volumes in a Rust renderer

OpenVDB ingestion, heterogeneous volumes and cloud research carried from asset tools into Breda’s rendering systems.

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