I’m working on visualization of massive point clouds, somewhere in the ballpark of 330 million points per scene. I use VBOs to upload this data to VRAM and I couldn’t find a lot of info on what the recommended size of each VBO is.
Only thing I could find was an old nvidia document that mentioned 1-4 MB per VBO was recommended. Is this still valid?
I also tested loading times with different VBO sizes, with results that I didn’t expect:
httx://i.imgur.com/MEA2Cfp.png
This is the load time depending on the VBO size for 700K points, this is not the load time of a single VBO its the total time needed to load as many VBOs needed to fit the 700K points.
I thought that the graph was going to be smoother without that much difference for more or less the same size.
Is this normal? Why does this happen?