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sylware

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AMD fusion GPU hardware programming interface

31 January 2011, 08:37 PM

What is the AMD fusion GPU hardware programming interface?
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31 January 2011, 10:18 PM

At a hardware level, the interface for the Zacate/Ontario APUs is like the Evergreen discrete GPUs. Think Cedar aka HD54xx.

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31 January 2011, 11:23 PM

The shader ISA is available here:

http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/assets/AMD_Evergreen-Family_Instruction_Set_Architecture.pdf
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01 February 2011, 05:54 AM

bus?

errr....
I was actually thinking bus interface. I guess it's not anymore PCI-E.
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01 February 2011, 12:25 PM

It still shows up as a pci device and is accessed the same way from a software perspective.
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