SCEA Releases PS3 Deferred Shading and Rendering FAQ Options

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SCEA Releases PS3 Deferred Shading and Rendering FAQ Posted by XanTium | 12-9-2007 0:14 EST

From gamers-creed.co: [QUOTE] This paper studies a deferred pixel shading algorithm implemented on a Cell-based computer entertainment system. The pixel shader runs on the Synergistic Processing Units (SPUs) of the Cell and works concurrently with the GPU to render images. The system's unified memory architecture allows the Cell and GPU to exchange data through shared textures. The SPUs use the Cell DMA list capability to gather irregular fine-grained fragments of texture data generated by the GPU. They return resultant shadow textures the same way. The shading computation ran at up to 85 Hz at HDTV 720p resolution on 5 SPUs and generated 30.72 gigaops of performance. This is comparable to the performance of the algorithm running on a state of the art high end GPU. These results indicate that a hybrid solution in which the Cell and GPU work together can produce higher performance than either device working alone. [/QUOTE] Download: research.scea.com News-Source: gamers-creed.co