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Shader Execution Reordering & Opacity Micromaps

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Evolve now supports Shader Execution Reordering (SER) and Opacity Micromaps (OMM) on supported hardware.

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Shader Execution Reordering (SER) allows the GPU to dynamically reorder ray tracing shader invocations for better coherence, reducing divergent execution and improving throughput. Opacity Micromaps (OMM) encode sub-triangle opacity data to allow the hardware to skip intersection testing against transparent geometry, avoiding costly any-hit shader invocations. In non-technical terms, both are performance optimizations that most if not all ray tracing games will use going forward.

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For official runs that end up in the Hall of Fame, SER and OMM will be enabled by default if your GPU supports them. Users can toggle SER and OMM usage through custom runs to see the performance impact of both.
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Latest drivers are required:

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• AMD: Adrenalin Edition 26.2.1
• Intel: Intel Arc Graphics (Windows)
• Nvidia: Driver version 595 or newer

• Professional users using evolve-professional.exe for commandline automation now receive actual output to stdout from running the command.
• CLI runs no longer show dialog windows or the "device not supported" screen — the application now exits with an error code instead of hanging, which fixes automated scripting workflows.
• CLI export files are no longer created at startup — they are only written once a benchmark run completes, preventing confusing empty files from appearing on disk

Thank you to the team at Notebookcheck for providing valuable feedback and feature requests on the CLI experience!

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If you're a member of the press or influencer feel free to use the form on our website ([https://www.evolvebenchmark.com/press-influencers](https://www.evolvebenchmark.com/press-influencers#)) and sign up for a free copy of the professional version!

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