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MEMORANDUM

TO: Senior Management / Technical Review Board FROM: [Your Name/Title] DATE: October 26, 2023 SUBJECT: Comparative Analysis: Teradici Cloud Access Software (TCC) vs. Microsoft WDDM – Architectural Advantages

3. Technical Benefits

| Metric | WDDM + QPC | WDDM + TCC | |--------|-------------|-------------| | GPU-present jitter | ±50–200 μs | ±5–15 μs | | VR motion-to-photon | ~25 ms | ~12 ms (with reflex + TCC) | | Audio-visual sync drift | 1 frame every few min | <1 ms over hours | | CPU overhead | High (frequent queries) | Near-zero | tcc wddm better

TCC enables frame-locked GPU execution—useful for:

  • WaveVR / OpenXR’s XR_KHR_composition_layer_cycle
  • NVIDIA Reflex’s Frame Warp (pre-render to photon timing)
  • Professional video sync (Genlock over GPU)

3. Memory Efficiency and the VRAM Ceiling

WDDM is a hungry roommate. Because it is designed for graphics, it reserves a portion of the GPU’s VRAM for the desktop interface and display buffers. On a card with limited memory, every megabyte counts. WDDM effectively reduces your total available VRAM. MEMORANDUM TO: Senior Management / Technical Review Board

In TCC mode, the card is "headless"—it has no display output. Therefore, no memory is reserved for rendering the Windows desktop. The entire frame buffer is available for your compute workload. In memory-bound tasks (like large matrix multiplications or 3D rendering), this extra overhead can be the difference between "Out of Memory" errors and a successful run.

6. The Only Downsides of TCC (And Why They Don’t Matter)

No technology is perfect. TCC has three limitations, but for compute users, they are irrelevant. graphical experiences —think gaming

When TCC Wins

  • Real-time display requirements (instrument clusters, HUDs) – no unexpected frame drops.
  • Fixed-function pipelines – no dynamic app switching needed.
  • Lightweight RTOS or bare-metal graphics without full Windows overhead.
  • Deterministic memory and timing for safety-critical systems (ISO 26262).

✅ TCC is better for reliability, predictability, and low latency in embedded displays.

WDDM – Windows Display Driver Model

WDDM is the default driver architecture for consumer GPUs (GeForce RTX, GTX) and many workstation cards running Windows. It is designed for interactive, graphical experiences—think gaming, UI rendering, and multi-monitor desktops. WDDM allows the operating system to manage GPU resources, time-slice rendering tasks, and support features like:

  • Multiple applications sharing the GPU
  • GPU preemption (pausing a task for a higher-priority one)
  • Display output to monitors