Comments on: Speculation: pipelining geometry shaders http://aras-p.info/blog/2005/12/22/speculation-pipelining-geometry-shaders/ Random thoughts of a triangle pusher Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:15:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: NeARAZ http://aras-p.info/blog/2005/12/22/speculation-pipelining-geometry-shaders/comment-page-1/#comment-111 NeARAZ Thu, 22 Dec 2005 19:06:00 +0000 http://aras-p.info/blog/?p=82#comment-111 Yeah, I know <I>(=heard :))</I> that Xenos has unified shader pipes, with dynamic allocation happening somehow. In fact, both MS and ATI had stated that multiple times.<BR/><BR/>The future hardware also seems to be going in that direction, as most of "stuff" in the shaders will be of the same capabilities (with some exceptions: break/emit is GS only; derivatives/automaticmiplevel is PS only). Maybe the hardware is just a big array of "computation/sampling units", and someone "from above" allocates them on demand.<BR/><BR/>Speculating is fun :) Yeah, I know (=heard :)) that Xenos has unified shader pipes, with dynamic allocation happening somehow. In fact, both MS and ATI had stated that multiple times.

The future hardware also seems to be going in that direction, as most of “stuff” in the shaders will be of the same capabilities (with some exceptions: break/emit is GS only; derivatives/automaticmiplevel is PS only). Maybe the hardware is just a big array of “computation/sampling units”, and someone “from above” allocates them on demand.

Speculating is fun :)

]]> By: ReJ http://aras-p.info/blog/2005/12/22/speculation-pipelining-geometry-shaders/comment-page-1/#comment-112 ReJ Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:05:00 +0000 http://aras-p.info/blog/?p=82#comment-112 cite from the same Beyond3DL: <I>Unlike ATI's Xenos graphics processors for the XBOX 360, the R520 architecture is a little more traditional in that it doesn't make use of a unified architecture and hence has distinct vertex shader and pixel shader processors.</I> Probably can be used as a bit of a hint. cite from the same Beyond3DL: Unlike ATI’s Xenos graphics processors for the XBOX 360, the R520 architecture is a little more traditional in that it doesn’t make use of a unified architecture and hence has distinct vertex shader and pixel shader processors. Probably can be used as a bit of a hint.

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