Advanced Micro Devices Corporation

Nvidia Corporation

Jan H Achrenius

Kiia Kallio

Ruijin Wu

Tero Tapani Karras

Anirudh Rajendra Acharya

Mika Tuomi

Tuomas Lukka

Michael John Livesley

Miikka Kangasluoma

Concurrently with performing a visibility pass to generate visibility data for two or more bins of an image, a processing system determines whether a primitive to be rendered covers at least a predetermined threshold percentage of a tile of the image. In response to the primitive coving at least the predetermined threshold percentage of the tile, the processing system stores the depth data of the primitive in a depth buffer for pixel-based rendering. In response to the primitive not covering at least the predetermined threshold percentage of the tile, the processing system fuses the primitive with one or more preceding primitives sharing an edge with the primitive in the tile to generate a fused primitive. In response to the fused primitive being valid in the tile, the processing system passes the depth data of the fused primitive to the depth buffer.

Hierarchical depth data generation using primitive fusion

Devices and methods method of tiled rendering are provided which comprises dividing a frame to be rendered, into a plurality of tiles, receiving commands to execute a plurality of subpasses of the tiles, interleaving execution of same subpasses of multiple tiles of the frame by executing one or more subpasses as skip operations, storing visibility data, for subsequently ordered subpasses of the tiles, at memory addresses allocated for data of corresponding adjacent tiles in a first direction of traversal and rendering the tiles for the subsequently ordered subpasses using the visibility data stored at the memory addresses allocated for corresponding adjacent tiles in a second direction of traversal, opposite the first direction of traversal.

Device and method of implementing subpass interleaving of tiled image rendering

Some implementations provide systems, devices, and methods for rendering a plurality of primitives of a frame, the plurality of primitives being divided into a plurality of batches of primitives and the frame being divided into a plurality of bins. For at least one batch of the plurality of batches the rendering includes, for each of the plurality of bins, rendering primitives of a first sub-batch rasterizing to that bin, and for each of the plurality of bins, rendering primitives of a second sub-batch rasterizing to that bin.

Fine grained replay control in binning hardware

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for optimizing use of a vertex cache. In use, information is identified, where such information is associated with vertex data stored in a vertex cache. To this end, use of the vertex cache may be optimized utilizing the information. In one embodiment, the information may include new information derived from the vertex data, and optionally index data, prior to processing of the vertex data. Further, the vertex cache may optionally utilize the information to optimize performance of the vertex cache by minimizing a number of cache misses.

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Jan H Achrenius