[Open-graphics] books on graphics cards - ATTILA: an open-source cycle-level GPU simulator

[Zoltan Podlovics]

Attila Kinali wrote:
> Moin,
> 
> In the course of trying to figure out how the upsampling
> could be implemented most efficently (aka reading the mails
> on this list) i came to the conclusion, that i'm lacking
> a damn lot understanding how a graphics card works.
> 
> Could anyone give me pointers to books, wepages,...
> that could fill that gap? It doesn't matter if they
> are out of date, as long as i can learn the basics.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 			Attila Kinali

Maybe it's not exactly what you want, but may useful to understand how a 
modern graphics card works:

ATTILA: A Cycle-Level Execution-Driven Simulator for Modern GPU 
Architectures [1]

The simulator is amazing: it really renders the frame by replaying 
opengl trace from real game (eg.: Doom3) The simulator source code is 
also downloadable (with BSD license).

[1] http://personals.ac.upc.edu/vmoya/log.html

Regards,
Zoltan