NVIDIA's Pixel & Vertex Shading Language

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 13, 2002 @06:26AM from the i-want-my-graphics-3d dept.

Barkhausen Criterion writes "NVIDIA have announced a high-level Pixel and Vertex Shading language developed in conjunction with Microsoft. According to this initial look, the "Cg Compiler" compiles high level Pixel and Vertex Shader language into low-level DirectX and OpenGL code. While the press releases are going amok, CG Channel (Computer Graphics Channel) has the most comprehensive look at the technology. The article writes, "Putting on my speculative hat, the motivation is to drive hardware sales by increasing the prevalence of Pixel and Vertex Shader-enabled applications and gaming titles. This would be accomplished by creating a forward-compatible tool for developers to fully utilize the advanced features of current GPUs, and future GPUs/VPUs." "

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Inefficiencies by Have+Blue · 2002-06-13 06:57 · Score: 5, Interesting

One of these days, nVidia will ship a GPU whose functionality is a proper superset of that of a traditional CPU and then we can ditch the CPU entirely. Just like MMX, but backwards. This is a a recognized law of engineering. At that point, Cg will have to become a "real" compiler. Let's hope nVidia is up to the task...