Texture Caches

@article{Doggett2012TextureC,
  title={Texture Caches},
  author={Michael C. Doggett},
  journal={IEEE Micro},
  year={2012},
  volume={32},
  pages={136-141}
}
  • M. Doggett
  • Published 1 May 2012
  • Computer Science
  • IEEE Micro
This column examines the texture cache, an essential component of modern GPUs that plays an important role in achieving real-time performance when generating realistic images. GPUs have many components and the texture cache is only one of them. But it has a real impact on the performance of the GPU if rasterization and memory tiling are set up correctly. 
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