GPUs are critical to gaming, but how do video cards do what they do? We dive into the four main components of a GPU: cores, texture and pixel processing, memory bandwidth, and memory capacity.

The journey from 3D modeling information to a screen full of pixels begins and ends in a pipeline. Known as the rendering pipeline it is the sequence of steps that the GPU takes to render the scene.

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Texture compression also needs to be optimized for random access, with rendering tapping different parts of the memory depending on the textures it needs at the time.

The Granite SDK can be used for texture streaming and virtual texturing in 3D games and can be integrated with any 3D engine, such as the available Unity and Unreal Engine plugins.

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