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hardware rendering

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Performing the computations necessary to construct output for the printer or screen by following instructions hardwired into a chip. Given computers with equal speed, hardware rendering is faster than software rendering. See render.


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PURE is a hardware rendering card for PCs and Macs that simulates the complex physics of the real world.
Today ATI has also announced, along with top-tier DCC application vendors, real-time hardware rendering capabilities on the FireGL line of workstation graphics accelerators using the OpenGL Shading Language and Microsoft DirectX 9 HLSL.
Having the ability to process shaders and procedurals on board the graphics card is the next logical step in hardware rendering.
 
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