GPU Graphics and Compute Architecture

This lecture contains the overflow from the 4 pipeline lectures, mostly the composition/display lecture.

The final stage of the graphics pipeline is composition/display. In this lecture we look at antialiasing algorithms, compositing, the depth buffer, and monitors. [Note: The beginning part of this lecture is the remainder of the rasterization lecture, and this lecture spills into the overflow lectur…

We turn away from a fixed-function graphics pipeline and explore what we can do with a user-programmable pipeline, where not only pipeline stages but also the structure of the pipeline can be customized. We look at Reyes, delay streams, and the programmable culling unit.