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Annoying misuse of the term "draw calls". :- ( Also, the fancy transfer cable seems to be basically just a USB 3.0 connector, and by their description it gets a
by microcolonel 10y ago
Annoying misuse of the term "draw calls". :- (
Also, the fancy transfer cable seems to be basically just a USB 3.0 connector, and by their description it gets about 3.4GiBit/s. Pretty okay.
- Negitivefrags 10y agoHow were they misusing the term?
- microcolonel 10y agoThere is only one "draw call" in D3D12, ID3D12GraphicsCommandList::DrawInstanced. Strictly speaking, DrawInstanced isn't even a call anymore, it is just part of a recorded command buffer. When they say draw calls, I imagine they mean that they added D3D12 command stream handling to the firmware on the GPU. It's arguably nonsensical to say "it’s designed to incorporate basic, oft-used DirectX12 draw calls into the GPU command processor itself".
- gambiting 10y agoWell, one of the downsides of X1 devkits being just normal retail units was that you only had 1 gigabit ethernet and no extra connectors. With PS4 devkit you can connect using a USB 3.0 and transfer builds much quicker than over ethernet - so it looks like Microsoft is finally catching up there.
- atonse 10y agoWhy didn't they just package TB3 in with a fiberoptic cable? That can go 10s of feet at 40 Gbps.