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- Patent Title: Mid-render compute for graphics processing
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Application No.: US15388915Application Date: 2016-12-22
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Publication No.: US10223822B2Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Terence M. Potter , Ralph C. Taylor , Richard W. Schreyer , Aaftab A. Munshi , Justin A. Hensley
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.
- Main IPC: G06T1/20
- IPC: G06T1/20 ; G06T1/60 ; G06T15/80 ; G06T15/00 ; G06F9/50 ; G06F9/54

Abstract:
Techniques are disclosed relating to performing mid-render auxiliary compute tasks for graphics processing. In some embodiments, auxiliary compute tasks are performed during a render pass, using at least a portion of a memory context of the render pass, without accessing a shared memory during the render pass. Relative to flushing render data to shared memory to perform compute tasks, this may reduce memory accesses and/or cache thrashing, which may in turn increase performance and/or reduce power consumption.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180182153A1 Mid-Render Compute for Graphics Processing Public/Granted day:2018-06-28
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