GPU Rendering

Cube, but on the GPU

Lowest part, the Hardware

And now it’s the lowest part. The GPU will execute the graphcis API mapped from RHI commands.

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After executed all the commands in the current frame, we will see this content in the final frame render target texture.

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Questions for the Next Chapters

Is this the end? Of course not, there are many unanswered questions:

  • Where do the shaders come from?
  • How do materials affect rendering?
  • Where does the vertex data come from?
  • ...

Let's continue to explore these topics in the next chapters

A little more about GPU Hardware Layer

If you are very interested in this question:

How does a GPU execute this series of rendering API calls?

I recommend reading the following series of articles: