By: vvid (no.delete@this.thanks.com), August 7, 2016 4:33 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
VertexMaster (nope.delete@this.nope.com) on August 5, 2016 5:16 am wrote:
> Getting back to GCN 1.2, it looks a lot like Maxwell's output. It's block rendering for the
> benefit of cache/compression. We can call it "tiling", but it's nothing like TBDR and more
> importantly, not some key advantage that Maxwell has over Kepler or AMD's GCN 1.2+ cards.
>
> http://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/cs/Personal/Michael_Doggett/pubs/doggett12-tc.pdf
> - Covers caching in GCN 1.0 supporting the idea it's just for cache coherency.
BTW, why did you mentioned GCN1.2 several times?
Basic tiling modes are the same for any GCN.
This is 390x (GCN 1.1)
> Getting back to GCN 1.2, it looks a lot like Maxwell's output. It's block rendering for the
> benefit of cache/compression. We can call it "tiling", but it's nothing like TBDR and more
> importantly, not some key advantage that Maxwell has over Kepler or AMD's GCN 1.2+ cards.
>
> http://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/cs/Personal/Michael_Doggett/pubs/doggett12-tc.pdf
> - Covers caching in GCN 1.0 supporting the idea it's just for cache coherency.
BTW, why did you mentioned GCN1.2 several times?
Basic tiling modes are the same for any GCN.
This is 390x (GCN 1.1)
