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How GPUs Work - NVIDIA
96 ComputerHOW THINGS WORKIn the early 1990s, ubiquitousinteractive 3D graphics was stillthe stuff of science fiction. By theend of the decade, nearly everynew computer contained a graph-ics processing unit (GPU) dedicated toproviding a high-performance, visu-ally rich, interactive 3D dramatic shift was the in-evitable consequence of consumerdemand for videogames, advances inmanufacturing technology, and theexploitation of the inherent paral-lelism in the feed-forward graphicspipeline. Today, the raw computa-tional power of a GPU dwarfs that ofthe most powerful CPU, and the gap issteadily , GPUs have movedaway from the traditional fixed-func-tion 3D graphics pipeline toward a flexible general-purpose compu-tational engine.
ing equation (B-T. Phong, “Illumina-tion for Computer-Generated Images,” Comm. ACM, June 1975, pp. 311-317), a phenomenological appearance model that approximates the look of plastic. These materials combine a dull diffuse base with a shiny specular high-How GPUs Work David Luebke, NVIDIA Research Greg Humphreys, University of Virginia
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