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by Arelius 1795 days ago
It's been often quoted that Nvidia has switched to tile based for their Desktop renderers, but I haven't seen a source that confirms this. I suspect this is speculation due to changes in raster order that produce side-effects that look tiled even though they aren't.
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This has been empirically tested on multiple occasions. There is an article on realwordtechnologies discussing this, and the results have been related for newer AMD GPUs as well. I have a little tool for macOS that tests these things out, and the Navi GPU on my MacBook is definitely a tiler (the Gen10 Intel GPU is not).
It's brought up in multiple other comments, so I won't bother going into detail, but the empirical testing, is flawed and is actually measuring changes in other details about thread launch behavior.