Qualcomm Incorporated

Adimulam Ramesh Babu

Srihari Babu Alla

Avinash Seetharamaiah

David Kirk McAllister

Jonnala Gadda Nagendra Kumar

Andrew Evan Gruber

Tao Wang

Thomas Edwin Frisinger

Xuefeng Tang

Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU or CPU. The apparatus may allocate each of a plurality of primitives in a scene into one of a plurality of bounding boxes, each of the plurality of bounding boxes corresponding to a plurality of nodes including internal nodes and leaf nodes. The apparatus may also identify whether each of the plurality of nodes is one of the internal nodes or one of the leaf nodes. Further, the apparatus may estimate a compressibility of each of the plurality of nodes if the node is one of the leaf nodes, the compressibility of the node corresponding to whether the node is compressible. The apparatus may also compress data corresponding to each of the plurality of nodes if the node is estimated to be compressible.

Leaf node compression with compressibility prediction

Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU. The apparatus may obtain an indication of a BVH structure including a plurality of nodes, wherein the BVH structure is associated with geometry data for a plurality of primitives in a scene, wherein each of the plurality of nodes is associated with one or more primitives, where a first level BVH includes a set of first nodes and a second level BVH includes a set of second nodes. The apparatus may also allocate information for a plurality of second nodes in the set of second nodes to at least one first node in the set of first nodes. Further, the apparatus may store the allocated information for the plurality of second nodes in the set of second nodes in the at least one first node in the set of first nodes.

Multi-level bounding volume hierarchy coalescing

Systems and techniques are provided for widening a hierarchical structure for ray tracing. For instance, a process can include obtaining a plurality of primitives of a scene object included in a first hierarchical acceleration data structure and determining one or more candidate hierarchical acceleration data structures each including the plurality of primitives. A cost metric can be determined for the one or more candidate hierarchical acceleration data structures and, based on the cost metric, a compressibility prediction associated with a candidate hierarchical acceleration data structure of the one or more candidate hierarchical acceleration data structures can be determined. An output hierarchical acceleration data structure can be generated based on the compressibility prediction.

Bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) widening based on node compressibility

Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU. The apparatus may configure a BVH structure including a plurality of levels and a plurality of nodes, the BVH structure being associated with geometry data for a plurality of primitives in a scene. The apparatus may also identify an amount of storage in a GMEM that is available for storing at least some of the plurality of nodes in the BVH structure. Further, the apparatus may allocate the BVH structure into a first BVH section including a plurality of first nodes and a second BVH section including a plurality of second nodes. The apparatus may also store first data associated with the plurality of first nodes in the GMEM and second data associated with the plurality of first nodes and the plurality of second nodes in a system memory.

Storage of levels for bottom level bounding volume hierarchy

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for graphics processing. An example method generally includes receiving, at a graphics processing unit (GPU), a plurality of commands corresponding to a plurality of draws across a frame, each of the plurality of commands indicating a depth test direction with respect to a low-resolution depth (LRZ) buffer for the corresponding draw. The method generally includes maintaining, at the GPU, a LRZ status buffer to store a corresponding depth test direction for a first command in time of the plurality of commands processed by the GPU. The method generally includes disabling, at the GPU, use of the LRZ buffer for depth testing for any of the plurality of commands remaining unprocessed after processing a command of the plurality of commands having a different depth test direction than the corresponding depth test direction stored in the LRZ status buffer.

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