A Trip through the Graphics Pipeline

Introduction
The Software Stack
GPU Memory Architecture and the Command Processor
3D Pipeline Overview / Vertex Processing
Texture Samplers
Primitive Assembly, Clip/Cull, Projection, and Viewport Transform
(Triangle) Rasterization and Setup
Z/Stencil Processing, 3 Different Ways
Pixel Processing - Fork Phase
Pixel Processing - Join Phase
Geometry Shaders
Stream-Out
Tessellation
Compute Shaders

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Interpolated values
Early Z/Stencil
Z/Stencil Writes: The Full Truth
Hierarchical Z/Stencil
Putting it all Together
Revenge of the API Order
Memory Bandwidth and Z Compression
Postscript

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