Imagination Technologies Limited

Roger Hernando Buch

John William Howson

Xile Yang

Richard Broadhurst

Panagiotis Velentzas

Methods and apparatus for merging tasks in a graphics pipeline in which, subsequent to a trigger to flush a tag buffer, one or more tasks from the flushed tag buffer are generated, each task comprising a reference to a program and plurality of fragments on which the program is to be executed, wherein a fragment is an element of a primitive at a sample position. It is then determined whether merging criteria are satisfied and if satisfied, one or more fragments from a next tag buffer flush are added to a last task of the one or more tasks generated from the flushed tag buffer.

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Roger Hernando Buch