Arm Limited

Philip Carlos Garcia

Olof Henrik Uhrenholt

Michael Martin Klock

Gloria Garcia

Frank Klaeboe Langtind

Sandeep Kakarlapudi

Mark Underwood

Tord Kvestad Øygard

Peter Anthony Hearne

Wing-Tsi Henry Wong

When performing a sequence of rendering jobs, rendering tasks for separate rendering jobs are permitted to overlap within the graphics processor's processing (shader) cores. A record is maintained of which rendering tasks are currently being processed by the graphics processor's processing (shader) cores which record can then be used to enforce any data (processing) dependencies between different rendering jobs.

Graphics processing

When performing tile-based rendering a first, pre-pass operation in which primitives in a sequence of primitives for a tile are processed to determine visibility information for the sequence of primitives, the visibility information being usable to determine whether or not fragments for a primitive in the sequence of primitives should subsequently be processed further for the render output, is performed. Thereafter a second, main pass operation is performed in which the further processing of fragments for primitives that were processed during the first, pre-pass operation is controlled based on the determined visibility information for the sequence of primitives, such that for fragments for which the visibility information indicates that the fragments should not be processed further for the render output some or all of the processing during the second, main pass is omitted. The visibility information indicates which primitives should be rendered for which sampling positions of the render output.

Graphics processors

Disclosed subject matter relates generally to graphics processing, and relates more particularly to processing graphics vertex content.

System, devices and/or processes for graphics vertex processing

A method of and apparatus for processing graphics in a tile-based graphics processing system, wherein when preparing primitive lists it is determined, based on a measure of the size of a primitive, whether or not to perform processing of one or more attributes of one or more vertices of the primitive.

Methods and systems for tile-based graphics processing

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