robinson-ps4toolchain新.pdf

Developer Toolchain for Paul T. Robinson Sony Computer Entertainment LLVM Dev Meeting, 7 Nov 2013 1 Agenda PlayStation®4 – Info for game teams Why Clang? Special Considerations Hacking on Clang/LLVM Now and the Future 2 PlayStation®4 “Next Gen” PlayStation® console Powerful game machine Modern graphics features PC based architecture Lightning fast memory New networking and interface features 3 CPU AMD x86-64 Jaguar Low power consumption, low heat 8 cores, 8 HW threads 2MiB L2 cache per 4 core group 32KiB L1 I-cache and D-cache per core Atomics, threads, fibers, ULTs (user-level threads) 4 GPU DX 11.1+ feature set with SCE custom features Fine-grained cache control Performance counters Extra debugging support Asynchronous compute architecture Carefully balanced for maximum graphics power plus compute tasks 800MHz clock, 1.843 TFLOPS Greatly expanded shader pipeline compared to PS3™ Geometry and tessellation shaders More direct exposure to shader stages than DirectX 5 RAM 8GB 256 bit GDDR5 GDDR5 is very high end graphics memory only found on PC graphics cards Fully unified address space 176 GB/s total bandwidth 6 Toolchain at a Glance Windows 7 (and later), 64-bit T