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Tile based Deferred Rendering came from PowerVR. Prior to moving to their own GPU architecture, Apple licensed various PowerVR designs.

• ksec 6y ago
  Yes and it goes as far back as Saga Dreamcast. And the technique itself is now used in pretty much all of the current GPU from Nvidia to AMD and ARM. Still a little pissed at how Apple handled IMG / PowerVR.
  • Veedrac 6y ago
    NVIDIA uses tiled rasterization, but not TBDR. I believe the same is true of AMD.
  • monocasa 6y ago
    It goes farther back. You could buy PowerVR discrete GPUs for desktops far back as 1996, IIRC.
  • TomVDB 6y ago
    Neither AMD nor Nvidia are using deferred rendering.