Identifying and overcoming performance bottlenecks in modern console hardware

• Main Author: Tan, Brian Kian How
• Other Authors: Narendra Shivaji Chaudhari
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer systems organization::Performance of systems
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61988
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The new generation of video game consoles (Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3) provides an unprecedented increase in processing power over its predecessors. However, this increase in computational power comes at the price of complex multi-core CPU that requires games to be optimized for paral...