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Shaders are simple programs that describe the traits of either a vertex or a pixel. Vertex shaders describe the attributes (position, texture coordinates, colors, etc.) of a vertex, while pixel shaders describe the traits (color, z-depth and alpha value) of a pixel. A vertex shader is called for each vertex in a primitive (possibly after ...
DirectX. Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with "Direct", such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound, and so forth.
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a free and open-source user interface framework for Windows -based desktop applications. WPF applications are based in .NET, and are primarily developed using C# and XAML. [ 2 ] Originally developed by Microsoft, WPF was initially released as part of .NET Framework 3.0 in 2006.
CUDA. In computing, CUDA (originally Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a proprietary [ 1 ] parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) that allows software to use certain types of graphics processing units (GPUs) for accelerated general-purpose processing, an approach called general-purpose computing on GPUs ...
clock Pixel pipelines Shader model (vertex/pixel) API support Memory bandwidth DVMT Hardware acceleration Direct3D OpenGL OpenCL MPEG-2 VC-1 AVC; i740 1998 Desktop stand-alone Auburn 7800 220 1 3.0 (SW) / No 5.0 1.1 No 0.8 2–8 Optional external MPEG-2 decoder via Video Module Interface No No i752 1999 Portola 1240 250 6.0 (full)
TeraScale is the codename for a family of graphics processing unit microarchitectures developed by ATI Technologies / AMD and their second microarchitecture implementing the unified shader model following Xenos. TeraScale replaced the old fixed-pipeline microarchitectures and competed directly with Nvidia's first unified shader ...
DirectX High-Level Shader Language. The High-Level Shading Language (HLSL) is a C-style shader language for DirectX 9 and higher and Xbox game consoles. It is related to Nvidia's Cg, but is only supported by DirectX and Xbox. HLSL programs are compiled into bytecode equivalent of DirectX shader assembly language.
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit initially designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles.