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Re:Intel 8th Gen Core with Radeon RX Vega GPU Presentation by danmaz74 on Sunday January 07, 2018 @04:13PM (#16092753)
Isn't that the kind of optimizations that you can only make for consoles, where you know that all users have the same hardware?
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Re:Intel 8th Gen Core with Radeon RX Vega GPU Presentation by monocasa on Sunday January 07, 2018 @04:25PM (#16092832)
No, modern GPU APIs give you plenty of control over data layout, and it's the model AMD had been pimping for a while with their 'HSA' push.
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Re:Intel 8th Gen Core with Radeon RX Vega GPU Presentation by danmaz74 on Sunday January 07, 2018 @04:37PM (#16092887)
I wasn't thinking about technical constraints, but economic ones. The market that would be able to benefit from this kind of optimization would be very limited as a % of PC gamers (which is already a limited market compared to consoles AFAIK).
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