Alain Galvan @alainxyz · 1/6/2026
I was looking at a NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell for $9.3K. To run a model like GLM-4.7, you would need at least 8 of these cards + a motherboard with 8 slots. That's a huge investment to run a full model!
Alain Galvan
Ray Tracing Driver Engineer at AMD
Orlando & Remote (West Palm Beach)
I'm a Member of Technical Staff at AMD, focused on improving the performance of ray tracing hardware.
I specialize in high performance GPGPU computing, ray tracing, and enjoy writing interactive articles.
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Ray Tracing Acceleration Structures
blog · 4/24/2022 · Updated 6 months Ago
An overview of ray tracing acceleration structures, reviewing bounding volume hierarchies, KD-trees, morton codes, and...
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Raw DirectX 12 Book
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A comprehensive introduction to DirectX 12 Ultimate, learn how to render meshes, ray trace scenes, and learn the latest...
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Ray Tracing Denoising
blog · 10/6/2020 · Updated 1 year Ago
An overview of ray tracing denoising, reviewing filtering, spatiotemporal, sampling and AI techniques to improve convergence...
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Raw WebGPU
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An overview on how to write a WebGPU application. Learn what key data structures and types are needed to draw in WebGPU.
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