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Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform In-Depth Guide

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Microsoft’s upcoming WARP system supposedly will allow you to run DX10 applications on your CPU, eliminating the need for a GPU. What kind of performance can you expect? How about and average of 7.36 frames per second in Crysis at 800 x 600 (low quality) on a Core i7 8 core running at 3GHz.

We don’t see WARP10 as a replacement for graphics hardware, particularly as reasonably performing low end Direct3D 10 discrete hardware is now available for under $25. The goal of WARP10 was to allow applications to target Direct3D 10 level hardware without having significantly different code paths or testing requirements when running on hardware or when running in software.
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Unfortunate: It appears it is either-or. Either your GPU is used or WARP is.

It would be nice if WARP could take over any DX functions not supported by the GPU without cutting it out entirely. This would extend the life of a video card by not pressuring us to upgrade for support of the latest flavour of DX10.x.

At the very least, it would be nice to give those 1-3 'extra' CPU cores something to do without the need for special programming... Not expecting miracles here but I'd like to see those frame rate spikes even out a bit.
 
srangara said:
Unfortunate: It appears it is either-or. Either your GPU is used or WARP is.

It would be nice if WARP could take over any DX functions not supported by the GPU without cutting it out entirely. This would extend the life of a video card by not pressuring us to upgrade for support of the latest flavour of DX10.x.

At the very least, it would be nice to give those 1-3 'extra' CPU cores something to do without the need for special programming... Not expecting miracles here but I'd like to see those frame rate spikes even out a bit.
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Yeah that'd be really nice. Making WARP symmetrical between GPU and unused processor cores. But this is a nice start though. I wonder how computers with older graphics card would handle Aero using WARP.
 
This could be taken advantage of in some cool ways.. but we haven't even really taken advantage of improving the windows interface with how much graphics card power we have available to us right now. Maybe this has something to do with integrated CPU/GPU processors?
 
w1retap said:
This could be taken advantage of in some cool ways.. but we haven't even really taken advantage of improving the windows interface with how much graphics card power we have available to us right now. Maybe this has something to do with integrated CPU/GPU processors?
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You mean like the Larrabee that's more a CPU with it's x86 architecture than a GPU? That could be.
 
This would be totally perfect for getting better graphics performance out of VM's
 
<quote> How about and average of 7.36 frames per second in Crysis at 800 x 600 (low quality) on a Core i7 8 core running at 3GHz. </quote>

I'm ashamed.... You guys should know the Core i7 is a 4-core, hyper-threaded processors (8 threads total, 2 per core), not an 8-core processor (8 dedicated threads, 1 per core).
 
zshift said:
<quote> How about and average of 7.36 frames per second in Crysis at 800 x 600 (low quality) on a Core i7 8 core running at 3GHz. </quote>

I'm ashamed.... You guys should know the Core i7 is a 4-core, hyper-threaded processors (8 threads total, 2 per core), not an 8-core processor (8 dedicated threads, 1 per core).
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I quoted the Microsoft article word for word to be safe. I'll forward your "ashamed-ness" to Microsoft personally.
 
so is this basically a dx10 hardware vm that is intended to partially achieve the same goal as an api.

at the very least i hope more applications look like video game interfaces.
 
zshift said:
.... You guys should know the Core i7 is a 4-core, hyper-threaded processors (8 threads total, 2 per core), not an 8-core processor (8 dedicated threads, 1 per core).
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Just because the i7 chips we can buy now are quad core, that doesn't mean Intel doesn't have an 8 core version. I believe they've mentioned dual core and 8 core version of i7 and plan to sell them eventually.

There's a 1 word explanation for why Microsoft did this: Larrabee.
 
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