NVidia has updated their NVAPI to support Shader Intrinsics.

[Unreal123]

According to this article Nvidia has updated their Nvapi for Shader Intrinsics, which can be used on Kepler, Maxwell and Pascal.

Hairworks is also updated and some other bunch of gameworks stuff.

Now it is up to the developer to use it and make best of it.

https://developer.nvidia.com/unlocki...ntrinsics-hlsl
https://developer.nvidia.com/reading...der-intrinsics

 

[greatnoob]

This is something very, very minor and doesn't need a thread of its own.

 

[Maverick177]

More Gimpworks? No thanks.

 

[greatnoob]

More Gimpworks? No thanks.

Compiler optimisations, basically it's describing converting some code like this (note that this is NOT shader code nor shader assembly, this is an example of CPU code inlining)

int a = max(5,10);
int max(int i, int j) {
  return i > j ? i : j;
}

to this:

int a = 5 > 10 ? 5 : 10;

except for GPUs and for 'niche' functions using Nvidia's shader extensions.

The example above is pretty crap tbh because it's 1) not in a shading language and 2) doesn't show the assembly output where the difference in instructions called is actually shown, but that's the gist of what's happening: reducing lines of code (assembly instructions in actuality) into a simplified and optimised version (uses instructions that Nv gpus can run on actual hardware to optimise better for).

These instruction sets were used by the Nvidia DX11 drivers. This is just a way to open up and document the hidden instructions used by the driver team so game developers can use them for DX12 too via shader extensions.

EDIT: limited dx12 driver optimisations means developers are responsible for what Nvidia has been doing with its DX11 drivers so this exists for optimisations sake.

 

[3DVagabond]

This is something very, very minor and doesn't need a thread of its own.

I disagree. We need to find out exactly, in layman's terms of course, how this helps nVidia performance in DX12. if it is truly minor we need to know.

 

[ThatBuzzkiller]

This isn't even news worthy when you consider that these extensions have been available for a VERY LONG time through NVAPI ...