Each texture processing cluster inside the GT200 core has access to its own texture sampling unit, meaning there are ten texture samplers in a fully-functional GeForce GTX 280 graphics processing unit ...

The NVIDIA NV40 GPU, launched last April, was a stepping stone for NVIDIA. Following their lacklustre showing versus ATI's R3-series products with their own NV3-series parts, the new generation ...

Like ATI's previous flagship Radeon X1950 XTX, the new Radeon HD 2900 HD is equipped with 16 total texture units and 16 ROPs. Both the texture units and ROPs have been enhanced over the last ...

When looking at the texturing performance of a modern graphics processor and its associated board configuration, you want to look at a few key areas. The first is good old multitexture fillrate, or ...

I mentioned earlier that AMD has changed its texturing architecture slightly and has moved away from completely decoupled texture samplers to aligning them with SIMD cores. AMD has also spent quite a ...