NOTE: This blog gives a "behind the scenes look" at the progress of the RadeonHD driver's development. As such, its contents reflect the state of the development version of the driver, and not the state of the publicly released version.
Hardware Accelerated Solid Rectangles for R5xx Based Cards
Posted by Hans de Ruiter
Solid rectangles are now rendered by the graphics card, instead of by the CPU. This is the first hardware accelerated operation implemented in the RadeonHD driver (for Amiga OS 4.x). The increase in speed can be seen in benchmarks made using the P96Speed utility (specifically, the RectFill() benchmark):
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