POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Euclideon Geoverse : Re: Euclideon Geoverse Server Time
28 Jul 2024 18:27:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Euclideon Geoverse  
From: Warp
Date: 15 May 2014 09:08:09
Message: <5374bc38@news.povray.org>
scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> Are CPUs fast enough today to just simply draw every one with a 
> z-buffer? Seems like it could be made multi-threaded very easily, on the 
> rare occasion two threads try to write to the same pixel at the same 
> time it probably won't even be noticed if the pixel is the wrong colour.

CPU's don't draw anything anymore nowadays. The only thing they do is to
transfer data to the GPU and tell it what to do with it.

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                                                          - Warp


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