Gionatan Danti (g.danti.delete@this.assyoma.it) on August 1, 2016 3:20 am wrote:
> Dan (dzhang50.delete@this.hotmail.com) on August 1, 2016 3:12 am wrote:
> > What are the pros/cons to using tile-based rasterizers vs. conventional rasterizers?
> > Tile-based seems to be more power efficient, but what's the tradeoff?
>
> The problem with tile based deferred rendering is that both applications
> and APIs are really meant for immediate mode rendering.
>
> In other word, you (as a graphic company) need to invest massive amount of work/money
> in a software driver capable of hiding the chip's deferred nature in a manner that
> do not break classical application (read: without visual artifact).
>
> Reading some PoverVR Kyro review, you will find that the chip performed very well,
> but the greatest problem where the driver, which often caused visual artifact (as
> application and APIs were expecting conventional immediate mode render devices).

Please re-read the question.
He asked about tiled versus full-frame, not deferred versus immediate.

Just because Kyro was tiled and deferred, doesn't mean that one implies the other.