What exactly are shaders?

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming OpenGL

Started by Ainokea February 16, 2005 02:00 AM

10 comments, last by Qatal 19 years, 2 months ago

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February 17, 2005 03:51 AM

Quote:Original post by stevenmarky
Technically you can do everything on the cpu that you can do with shaders, only much much slower.

That's correct, but half of the truth. Shaders perform calculations per vertex/fragment(pixel) so GPU calculations are rather graphics oriented.

Just so you don't think you can use the GPU for some weird stuff.

Qatal

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February 18, 2005 04:42 AM

This probably doesnt help, but you can make the GPU do some weird stuff too, if you're heavily CPU-bound it can actually make it go faster.

For instance, I've played around with computing physics on the GPU using FPRTs.

Yeah, it doesnt help.

-Chris

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