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Modern GPU Architecture Second Edition

Volume One Graphics Pipeline Design and Hardware Implementation

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Go beyond programming the GPU. Understand the architecture, execution model, memory systems, pipelines, and hardware that make modern GPU computing possible.

What's included in the Community Edition

  • SIMT execution, warps, divergence, and scheduling
  • NVIDIA SM, AMD CU, and Intel Xe-core architecture
  • GPU memory hierarchy, caches, shared memory, and VRAM
  • RTL, Verilog/SystemVerilog, pipelines, and digital design
  • Graphics and compute pipeline architecture
  • Rasterization, depth testing, and fragment processing
  • Texture units, filtering, compression, and cache architecture
  • GPU verification, testbenches, assertions, and regression testing
  • PCIe, NVLink, CXL, and GPU interconnects
  • Command processing, DMA engines, queues, and workload submission

About the Community Edition

Get a substantial free half-book edition of Modern GPU Architecture, Third Edition—a serious technical preview for readers who want to understand GPUs at the architectural level, not just use high-level APIs.

This edition goes deep into SIMT execution, warps and scheduling, NVIDIA SM / AMD CU / Intel Xe-core organization, memory hierarchy, RTL and digital design, graphics pipelines, rasterization, texture hardware, verification, interconnects, and command processing.

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