Why exactly is deferred rendering faster?

Felix Urbasik@ma.fellr.net to

GameDev@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 year ago

The GPU is still doing the same work per pixel, isn’t it?

Is it because there is less dependency chains as the buffers (albedo, normal, light, emission, …) are independent?

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