Imagination Technologies Limited

Rudi Bonfiglioli

Richard Broadhurst

A graphics processing unit configured to process graphics data using a rendering space which is sub-divided into a plurality of tiles, the graphics processing unit comprising: a plurality of processing cores configured to render graphics data; cost indication logic configured to obtain a cost indication for each of a plurality of sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space, wherein the cost indication for a set of one or more tiles is suggestive of a cost of processing the set of one or more tiles; similarity indication logic configured to obtain similarity indications between sets of one or more tiles of the rendering space, wherein the similarity indication between two sets of one or more tiles is indicative of a level of similarity between the two sets of tiles according to at least one processing metric; and scheduling logic configured to assign the sets of one or more tiles to the processing cores for rendering in dependence on the cost indications and the similarity indications.

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