Modern GPU Architecture Second Edition: Volume One Graphics Pipeline Design and Hardware Implementation (GPU Expert Engineering: Mastering Design, Programming, and Optimization) - Softcover

Thomas, Gareth

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798269178691

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

💡 Note: This book is written for serious engineers and researchers who want rigorous, high-level technical insight. It’s dense, detailed, and assumes prior familiarity with advanced concepts.
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Modern GPU Architecture Second Edition — Volume One
Graphics Pipeline Design and Hardware Implementation

Modern GPUs are the most complex and efficient parallel processors ever created—and this book shows you exactly how they work at the hardware level.

Unlike typical graphics or programming guides, this volume takes you inside the GPU itself:
how instructions flow through pipelines, how memory hierarchies sustain bandwidth, how shader cores and fixed-function units cooperate to render billions of pixels per second.

You’ll explore every major stage of the graphics pipeline in depth—geometry, rasterization, shading, texturing, and render output—all supported by clear mathematical models and synthesizable Verilog examples. This is not “theory for theory’s sake”; it’s engineering detail you can apply directly in design, simulation, or hardware verification.

By reading this book, you’ll gain:

• Architectural intuition — understand how throughput, latency, and bandwidth interact in real GPUs.

• Practical RTL-level insight — see how each stage can be implemented with clean, synthesizable Verilog.

• A foundation for advanced design — build the knowledge required for AI acceleration, compute architectures, or FPGA-based GPU prototyping.

• Confidence to analyze real silicon — reason about performance, bottlenecks, and tradeoffs like a hardware architect.

Every chapter bridges concept and implementation, making it invaluable for anyone designing graphics hardware, studying computer architecture, or seeking mastery of parallel computation systems.

Dense, detailed, and unapologetically technical, this book is written for those who want to understand modern GPUs—not just use them.

⚠️ This isn’t entertainment. It’s engineering.
If that excites you, welcome aboard.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798269178691
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 515