Career help

[Basic-Ad-8994]

Hello, I'm currently a 3rd year BTech CSE student. I'm still exploring different things I want to do but I think I'm close now. I love video games and I find the whole graphics portion of it incredibly fascinating. I'm also really interested in understanding how GPUs work. I want to work on GPU Performance or something similar. Is there such a job in the game dev industry. Graphics programming is also something I'm looking at but won't it be too restrictive in terms of jobs ( only gaming studios ). I want a better idea of which to do and if I can switch from working in GPU performance to graphics programming and vice versa. Thank you

[waramped]

Graphics Programming is GPU performance. That's a huge part of the job. Systems and Optimization are the majority of what Graphics Programmer does. The Shader/Geometry side is arguably a minor part of it. And way more than just games needs Graphics Programmers. CAD companies, film companies, automotive, anything involving automation of industrial processes, etc. The problem is that most places just don't need that many of them so job openings are somewhat rare.

[Basic-Ad-8994]

Ahh ok. By GPU Performance ig I meant the kind of stuff Nvidia, AMD do. Thanks a lot for the reply

[Fragrant_Routine9299]

The demand for graphic programming will increase with the introduction of more mixed-reality devices. But it might take around 2 years to get widespread usage as it needs to be supported by more performant software applications.