Beyond Programmable Shading: Fundamentals
All slides © 2008 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Used with permission.
All slides © 2008 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Used with permission.
SIMD Cores
• Each core:
– Includes 80 scalar stream processing units in total + 16KB Local Data Share
– Has its own control logic and runs from a shared set of threads
– Has 4 dedicated texture units + L1 cache
– Communicates with other SIMD cores via 16KB global data share
• New design allows texture fetch capability to scale with shader power,
maintaining 4:1 ALU:TEX ratio
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