Interesting article on 3D graphics pipeline

[red1776]

A rather thorough 4 part article takes you through the 3D pipeline;

http://www.geeks3d.com/20110704/3d-graphics-pipeline-explained/

 

[dividebyzero]

Good find.
And to think that programmable shaders for desktop graphics have just celebrated their tenth birthday.
Ten years ago, DirectX8 and 200MHz core and 230MHz of DDR was all the rage (pun intended)...I wonder if any forum posters of the day were prescient enough to ask "but will it play Crysis 3"

 

[red1776]

.I wonder if any forum posters of the day were prescient enough to ask "but will it play Crysis 3"

Geez I hope not