Nigel J W

Nigel J W

@nigeljw.bsky.social

GPU Software Architect at Arm. Previously, Unity, PlayStation, and Qualcomm. My opinions do not represent any of my current or past employers.

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Nigel J W
@nigeljw.bsky.social

An excellent guide for mobile graphics developers. I especially want to highlight the comment with regards to the side effect of using discard which disables early depth rejection, which is a very common practice, but often the implications are not well understood.

The Vulkan Working Group@vulkan.org

Optimizing Vulkan for tile-based GPUs? The Vulkan Guide's Tile Based Rendering (TBR) best practices page is a great resource. Full guide: docs.vulkan.org/guide/latest... #Vulkan #GPU #Programming #GameDev

docs.vulkan.orgTile Based Rendering (TBR) Best Practices :: Vulkan Documentation Project

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Sebastian Aaltonen
@sebaaltonen.bsky.social

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

sebastianaaltonen.comNo Graphics API — Sebastian AaltonenGraphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...

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Evolve Benchmark
@evolve-benchmark.bsky.social

We're releasing our Neural Radiance Caching benchmark soon. Here's what you need to know 🧵 For clarity - all shading you see in the video is inferred through our high quality Neural Radiance Cache at the first intersection point (primary rays).

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The Forge Interactive
@theforge.dev

🔔We’re #Hiring! The Forge Interactive is looking for a Graphics Programmer and Technical Artist to join our team! 🌍 Remote-friendly & open to global candidates 🌐 Apply on LinkedIn: The Forge Interactive, Inc. 📧 Or email: wolf@theforge.dev #GameDev #GraphicsProgramming #TechnicalArtist #RemoteWork

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The Vulkan Working Group
@vulkan.org

@blender3d.bsky.social's Vulkan project needs to validate if it can become an official supported backend (not experimental). Blender is requesting feedback on stability, features not working, and troublesome platforms. devtalk.blender.org/t/vulkan-fee...

devtalk.blender.orgVulkan: Feedback and testingHi all, The Vulkan project is getting to a state where we need to validate if it can become an official supported backend (not experimental). Last month effort was spent to make the viewport performa...

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AMD GPUOpen
@gpuopen.bsky.social

🔼 Triangles may have won the hardware-acceleration rendering battle ... 🔼 ⏹️ ... but the method in our latest blog enables emulation of quadrilateral rasterization, through bilinear interpolation of quadrilateral vertices! ⏹️ See how it squares up: gpuopen.com/learn/biline...

gpuopen.comBilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinatesA new algebraic method for hardware-accelerated bilinear interpolation on convex quadrilaterals is presented, using the Barycentric coordinate feature of modern GPUs.

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Evolve Benchmark
@evolve-benchmark.bsky.social

🦕Today we're launching on Product Hunt, where we'd love to score some upvotes! If you have some time available, help us achieve the top spot for today!🦾 www.producthunt.com/posts/evolve...

producthunt.comEVOLVE - Gpu ray-tracing benchmark | Product HuntIntroducing Evolve: A comprehensive GPU benchmark suite specializing in ray tracing. Measure your GPU's speed and performance across various categories, including ray tracing, energy consumption, and ...

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