Hidden Surface Removal

[FTemplar]

what's the status on HSR?
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1382&p=1
has it been implemented in Nvidia cards yet?

 

[Mingon]

from the geforce 3 onwards, although only enabled in 32bit colour

 

[BFG10K]

In addition nVidia uses LMA/LMA II which is a technique for increasing memory bandwidth by using a crossbar memory controller. This is also present on GF3s and higher.