Virtual Textures Benefits
Texture management software becomes trivial
- True Demand Paged Texture Management
- Textures do not need to be completely resident on the graphics card
- Only accessed pages are brought down to the graphics card
- Textures do not need to be physically contiguous - no fragmentation!
- Not in onboard memory
- Not in system memory
- Ability to easily use textures that are larger than available memory
- Textures larger than on-board memory, or thousands of small textures, or both
- No software burden or CPU load
- Autonomous DMA engine automatically loads pages into on-board working set
- Improved application performance
- Up to 50% better real world performance over hardware with similar raw fill-rates