nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 8 months agoDirectX 12 'Work Graphs' aim to eliminate CPU bottlenecks by putting the GPU in chargewww.tweaktown.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down12
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minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down8·8 months agoAre they, though? They’re hardware-threaded. Context switches are how they deal with a cache miss. This specific news sounds a lot like what an interrupt-driven scheduler would do. The bigger obstacle to a GPU OS is surely that the video card does not tend to talk to itself… and evidently that’s being addressed.
Are they, though? They’re hardware-threaded. Context switches are how they deal with a cache miss.
This specific news sounds a lot like what an interrupt-driven scheduler would do.
The bigger obstacle to a GPU OS is surely that the video card does not tend to talk to itself… and evidently that’s being addressed.