Made a Rust DB run spatial queries on gaming GPU RT cores, beating an H100

Apache Sedona's spatial database can now run on gaming graphics cards, harnessing their ray-tracing cores to accelerate spatial queries. According to the project's latest release, version zero point four achieves better performance than NVIDIA's H one hundred enterprise GPU. It's an unexpected win for consumer gaming hardware over specialized data-center accelerators.

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