Facebook Technologies, LLC

Christoph Herman Schied

Anton S Kaplanyan

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a graphics processing chip for rendering computer graphics. The graphics processing chip may include a controller configured to manage operations of the graphics processing chip in accordance with a graphics-rendering pipeline. The operations may include geometry-processing operations, rasterization operations, and shading operations. The chip may further include programmable memory components configured to store a machine-learning model configured to perform at least a portion of the shading operations. The chip may also include a plurality of processing units configured to be selectively used to perform the shading operations in accordance with the machine-learning model. The chip may also include at least one output memory configured to store image data generated using the shading operations.

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Redmond, WA, United States of America

Christoph Herman Schied