GS Invocations
Description
The metric GS Invocations represents the number of geometry shader invocations. The value is 0 if no geometry shader is associated with the rendering call.
NOTE
See Microsoft* DirectX* SDK for a description of the shader invocation count.
Examples
If GS Invocations is 1000 it means that the geometry shader was invoked for 1000 primitives.
Improving Performance
The only way to minimize the number of geometry shader invocations is to minimize the number of input primitives. The impact on rendering performance of reducing the invocation count is highly dependent upon your specific game or application.
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