Shader

A shader is a program that runs on the GPU. These programs target specific parts of the GPU's rendering pipeline and are written in special shading languages that are usually associated with their corresponding rendering API.

List of shading languages

• OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)
• High-Level Shader Language (HLSL) for Direct3D

 Source code
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(Intermediate Representation)
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  API frontend
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Driver compiler
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     ISA