Advanced Micro Devices Corporation

Karl Mann

Michael Mantor

Michael Andrew Mang

Disclosed herein are methods, apparatuses, and systems for accessing vertex data stored in a memory, and applications thereof. Such a method includes writing vertex data of primitives into contiguous banks of a memory such that the vertex data of consecutively written primitives spans more than one row of the memory. Vertex data of two consecutively written primitives are read from the memory in a single clock cycle.

Efficient data access for unified pixel interpolation

Embodiments for a local data share (LDS) unit are described herein. Embodiments include a co-operative set of threads to load data into shared memory so that the threads can have repeated memory access allowing higher memory bandwidth. In this way, data can be shared between related threads in a cooperative manner by providing a re-use of a locality of data from shared registers. Furthermore, embodiments of the invention allow a cooperative set of threads to fetch data in a partitioned manner so that it is only fetched once into a shared memory that can be repeatedly accessed via a separate low latency path.

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Karl Mann