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Re:An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers by dagmx on Thursday October 31, 2024 @07:28PM (#42012589)
Other hardware vendors absolutely do the same. Geometry shaders are poor performers on several other vendors for precisely the same reason
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Re:An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers by ferbivore on Thursday October 31, 2024 @07:48PM (#42012702)
At least some Qualcomm, Imagination and Broadcom GPUs support geometry shaders in hardware. Not entirely sure about Arm. To be fair, it could be the support isn't very good.
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Re:An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers by dagmx on Thursday October 31, 2024 @09:57PM (#42013365)
Some do, but a lot will have their firmware actually do the translation into other compute types that align better with the hardware.
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