the pipeline, whereas vertex shaders always require a 3D scene. For instance, a pixel shader is the only kind of shader that can act as a postprocessor...

Direct3D 9 API to augment the shader assembly language, and went on to become the required shading language for the unified shader model of Direct3D 10 and...

in its pixel pipe without adding the complexity of a "0.5" pixel shader interface. Additionally, you have to understand that the phrase "shader" is an...

Direct3D 8.0 – Pixel Shader 1.0/1.1 & Vertex Shader 1.0/1.1 Direct3D 8.1 – Pixel Shader 1.2/1.3/1.4 Direct3D 9.0 – Shader Model 2.0 (Pixel Shader 2.0 & Vertex...

3D computer graphics, the unified shader model (known in Direct3D 10 as "Shader Model 4.0") refers to a form of shader hardware in a graphical processing...

NV_register_combiners2 for pixel math and NV_texture_shader, NV_texture_shader2 and NV_texture_shader3 for texture lookups. ATI_fragment_shader did not even provide...

pixel shader "dispatch unit" breaks shaders down into threads (batches) of 16 pixels (4×4) and can track and distribute up to 128 threads per pixel "quad"...

included support for vertex shaders and pixel shaders, but other types of shaders were introduced gradually as well: DirectX 10 (Shader Model 4) and Cg 2.0 introduced...

tweak and enhance the pixel shader units for more flexibility. A new pixel shader version (PS2.b) allowed slightly greater shader program flexibility than...

are part of the shader pipeline and decoupled from the Render Output Pipelines (ROPs). For example, in AMD's Cypress GPU, each shader pipeline (of which...

Measured in texels/s. Performance Shader operations - How many operations the pixel shaders (or unified shaders in Direct3D 10 and newer GPUs) can perform...

the vertex and pixel shaders are rendered. It was first suggested by Michael Deering in 1988. On the first pass of a deferred shader, only data that...

generation of processors. In later models, shaders are integrated into a unified shader architecture, where any one shader can perform any of the functions listed...

implemented as a pixel shader, analyzing the scene depth buffer which is stored in a texture. For every pixel on the screen, the pixel shader samples the depth...

the Shader Model 2 feature-set. Shader Model 2b, the specification ATI and Microsoft defined with this generation, offered somewhat more shader program...

and the GPU. The most important shader units are vertex shaders, geometry shaders, and pixel shaders. The Unified Shader has been introduced to take full...

products. R200's 3D hardware consists of 4 pixel pipelines, each with 2 texture sampling units. It has 2 vertex shader units and a legacy Direct3D 7 TCL unit...

dynamic branching, increased efficiency and longer shader lengths are the main additions. Shader Model 3.0 was quickly adopted by game developers because...

Series has programmable pixel shaders, but do not fully comply with DirectX 8 or Pixel Shader 1.0. See article on R100's pixel shaders. R300, R400 and R500...

has a floating-point performance of 192 GFLOPS. 550 MHz Pixel shader clock / 500 MHz Vertex shader clock on 90 nm process (shrunk to 65 nm in 2008 to 40...

3D-card. Its programmable shader architecture enabled applications to execute custom visual effects programs in Microsoft Shader language 1.1. It is believed...

Q33, Q35, G31 and G33 chipsets. It supports Pixel Shader 2.0 with OpenGL 1.4, but Hardware Vertex Shader isn't supported. Found in Intel Atom D4xx, D5xx...

incarnations of shader execution engines used in Xbox were not general purpose and could not execute arbitrary pixel code. Vertices and pixels were processed...

passed to the next pipeline process: often a fragment shader; more recently, a geometry shader. The ARB Fragment Program extension provides APIs to load...

DirectX 8 (8.1), OpenGL 1.3 (1.5), Pixel Shader 1.1 (1.3) Architecture Rankine (NV3x): DirectX 9.0a, OpenGL 1.5 (2.1), Shader Model 2.0a Architecture Curie...

graphics chips allowed pixel shader-based textures, bump mapping, and lighting and shadowing technologies to become common. Shader technologies included...

given pixel; multisampling implementations may variously sample other operations such as visibility at different sampling levels. The pixel shader usually...

invoked to control how pixels from multiple applications are used to create the displayed pixel. The DWM includes built-in Pixel Shader 2.0 programs which...

enthusiasts as "the last high-ended AGP card in existence". It has 16 pixel shader units instead of the 20 that the 7800 GT has, but still benefits from...

II/LMA II), updated pixel shaders with new instructions for Direct3D 8.0a support, an additional vertex shader (the vertex and pixel shaders were now known...