gpu

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History of NVIDIA GPU’s

• Until 2006 GPU design was correlated to the logical stages of the rendering API
  • DirectX pipeline made this untable
• Stream Multiprocessor replaces this with Tesla release
  • Could run vertex, fragement, and geometry kernels without distinction
• Ideas of a “farm” with a master renderer
• CUDA introduced as a superset of C99
• Turing release gave dedicated cores for AI and ray tracing
  • Very reminiscent of pre-2006