Radeon Gallium3D R600g Color Tiling Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Display Drivers on 3 November 2012 at 11:08 AM EDT. Page 2 of 5. 19 Comments.
Radeon R600g Color Tiling
Radeon R600g Color Tiling

For the once-popular Nexuiz game, the basic 1D color tiling yielded a significant improvement but the newly enabled 2D mode didn't up the frame-rate anymore for this mid-range Radeon HD 4650 512MB graphics card.

Radeon R600g Color Tiling
Radeon R600g Color Tiling
Radeon R600g Color Tiling

The OpenArena tests had the same outcome as Nexuiz. The 1D tiling method involves grouping nearby pixels into tiles that reside close-by within video memory to speed-up color access while the 2D tiling is placing these tiles nearby each other within video memory.


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