News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement. Parent comment

Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement by AlphaSite on Monday April 03, 2017 @11:21AM (#14023405)
Both Nvidia and AMD have already switched or are moving towards tile based rendered to reduce bandwidth (and hence energy) costs.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement by monocasa on Monday April 03, 2017 @11:48AM (#14023702)
Source? That's a huge architectural change for them.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement by kevindqc on Monday April 03, 2017 @12:07PM (#14023944)
http://www.realworldtech.com/tile-based-rasterization-nvidia...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Discussions with Apple regarding license agreement by monocasa on Monday April 03, 2017 @02:01PM (#14025327)
So that's tile based rasterization not tile based rendering. There's a huge difference. This is basically just a cache before the ROPs write into DRAM.

EDIT: Also, I don't think his test is proving what he thinks it is.

[ Parent | on HN ]