Announcing new DirectX 12 features [wayback-archive]

• support for GPU heaps that persist a device removal MSDN

• allow writing of U32 values directly from withing command lists MSDN

• Depth Bounds Testing support MSDN

• Programmable MSAA MSDN

World of Tanks: Graphical Update Technical Overview [wayback-archiv…

2017 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: “Apple LLVM GPU Compiler: Embedded Dragons

• explanation of GPUs
• overview of GPU execution model
  • latency hiding
  • register usage
• many compiler internals
  • optimizations and trade-offs that need to be considered
• uniformity hoisting
  
  • compiler is able to extract constants and run as …

OpenCl -> Vulkan: A Porting Guide [wayback-archive]

• why?
  • better cross-platforms support
  • more frequent driver updates
  • more tools
  • less driver overhead, up to 3x less
• shows differences between the APIs
• clspv a tool to compile openCL shaders to SPIRV

Bringing Galaxy on Fire 3 to Vulkan: Stats & Summar…

VK_KHR_dedicated_allocation unofficial manual [wayback-archive]

• extension allows the driver to inform application that separate allocations are preferred
• nvidia and intel need this extension to allow extra optimizations
• how to use the extension

Material layering [wayback-archive]

• overview of different …

Forward+ decal rendering [wayback-archive]

• goals: avoid additional geometry, and don’t increase draw call count
• extend the light structure to also support decals
• cull the decals, sort them and apply them in the object shader just as lights
• still has a few open problems, for example mip selection
  • possib…

Lightmap optimizations for iOS [wayback-archive]

• lightmpas too big for the memory budget on iOS
• using ETC2 as a replacement for DXT5 (same size, slightly less quality)
• switched to per-vertex lightmaps
  • needed some art fixes
  • but reduced disk size to 17 % and most expensive runtime location to 25 %

Road t…

real-time-rendering: an overview for artists [wayback-archive]

• overview of
  • pbr
  • render pipeline
  • draw calls
  • culling
  • optimizations

Design Patterns for Low-Level Real-Time Rendering [wayback-archive]

• overview
  • GPU/CPU memory systems
  • command lists
  • GCN resource descriptors
• ring buffer
  • both GPU and CPU
  • returning CPU …

Real-time Global Illumination by Precomputed Local Reconstruction from Sparse Radiance Probes [wayback-archive]

• realtime global illumination technique
• using local precomputed data so that no long-range interactions is required between probes and receivers
• receiver depends only on a constant number of …

About GPU Family 4 - Metal 2.0 [wayback-archive]

• tile-based deferred rendering (TBDR)
• imageblocks
  • tile memory that can be acessed from the shader to create custom, tile local storage
  • can be shared between compute, and rasterization
• tile shading
  • new programmable stage, allow access to all data stored in…

Which Compute ID for me? [wayback-archive]

• easy to read overview of how compute shader ids are calculated for 1D and 2D processing
• provides examples

Area Lights [wayback-archive]

• explanation of specular light calculations for area lights (Sphere, disk, rectangle, tube light)
• uses the Representative poi…