Close to Metal Last modified: Thursday, August 02, 2007
Abbreviated as CTM, Close to Metal is an ATI device that is designed to expose the parallel array of floating-point processors found in ATI graphics hardware. CTM consists of this processor array plus supporting components that control and feed the array. CTM is controlled with a few commands to set parameters, invalidate and flush caches, and start the processors in the processing array.
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