Hi, I'm trying to find the usual post-TnL cache sizes on recent GPUs (GeForce 88xx and higher) but google won't help me much ... I only found a newsletter from NVidia ... talking about GeForce 3 and 4. Is there any tool to get that information from my card ? Or any website where this information can be found ? Thx for any answer !

If I understand correctly, the general feeling is that on recent GPUs one shouldn't be tuning for the cache quite so much. Because the unified architecture shares the stream processors, memory and cache for both vertex and fragment shaders, there isn't any good way to state that X amount of cache is used for vertices.

Hi !
But I've been reading the "GPU Programming Guide" (for G80 and higher) provided by NVidia, and they still talk about post-TnL cache, and recommend using their optimizing tool NVTriStrip ...

There may not be any fixed post-TnL cache size, but there should at least be some kind of lower-upper bounds ? Since it's usually 24 vertices on GeForce 4s (if I remember correctly) I assume we should around 2 or 4 times more (if not more) ...

Well, I'll discard this for the moment, but if anyone has information on the subject, I would really appreciate :)

Thx, but I don't want to use another lib. And on top of that, my meshes are procedurally generated, so I don't want to first generate a basic trimesh, then use the lib, then render ... that wouldn't be very efficient :)

Anyway, thx for the answer. I'm currently implementing the code that generate the trimesh, with a variable cache size, so hopefully I will be able to find the value that gives the best results for me. I will probably start with 48 with what you said :)