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LESSONCommunity · Part 6EP.247 · 24 s

Trending: the Tech Behind GTA VI · Part 1 — how does a console draw a whole city 30 times a second?

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// WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

GTA VI drops on 19 November — and your console has to draw a whole city 30 times every second!

// LESSON NOTES

GTA VI drops on 19 November — and your console has to draw a whole city 30 times every second! 🎮🌆

🧠 First the CPU moves the world: people, cars, crashes.
🔺 Then the GPU builds it from millions of tiny triangles…
🎨 …and paints every pixel. 4K = 3840 × 2160 = 8.3 million pixels!
🤔 So how long does it get for ONE picture?
⏱️ 33 milliseconds (1000 ÷ 30). Miss it, and the game stutters.

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  1. GTA six drops November nineteenth!
  2. Your console draws a city thirty times a second!
  3. The CPU moves people, cars, crashes!
  4. Then the GPU draws millions of triangles,
  5. then paints the pixels. Four K? Eight million!
  6. So how long for one picture?
  7. Thirty-three milliseconds! Miss it? Stutter!
  8. Part two: could your phone run GTA six? Follow so you don't miss it!

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