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公开(公告)号:US10262456B2
公开(公告)日:2019-04-16
申请号:US14975754
申请日:2015-12-19
Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
Inventor: Attila T. Afra , Carl J. Munkberg
Abstract: An apparatus and method for extracting and using path shading coherence in a ray tracing architecture. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises: ray generation logic to generate a ray stream from one or more image tiles; ray sorting logic to sort the rays within the ray stream based on a material identifier (ID) associated with each of the rays to generate a sorted ray stream; and one or more shaders to perform shading operations on rays within the sorted ray stream in an order in which the rays are sorted within the sorted ray stream.