Intel Corporation

Won-Jong Lee

Prasoonkumar Surti

Karthik Vaidyanathan

Carsten Benthin

Gabor Liktor

Sven Woop

Abhishek R Appu

Adam T Lake

John G Gierach

Stephen Junkins

Karol A Szerszen

Thomas F Raoux

Alexey Supikov

Michael Doyle

Joshua Barczak

Sreenivas Kothandaraman

Hiroshi Akiba

Holger Gruen

Pawel Majewski

Timothy Rowley

Bret G Alfieri

Apparatus and method for efficient graphics processing including ray tracing. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processor comprises: execution hardware logic to execute graphics commands and render images; an interface to couple functional units of the execution hardware logic to a tiled resource; and a tiled resource manager to manage access by the functional units to the tiled resource, a functional unit of the execution hardware logic to generate a request with a hash identifier (ID) to request access to a portion of the tiled resource, wherein the tiled resource manager is to determine whether a portion of the tiled resource identified by the hash ID exists, and if not, to allocate a new portion of the tiled resource and associate the new portion with the hash ID.

Apparatus and method for efficient graphics processing including ray tracing

Apparatus and method for programmable ray tracing with hardware acceleration on a graphics processor. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processor comprises shader execution circuitry to execute a plurality of programmable ray tracing shaders. The shader execution circuitry includes a plurality of single instruction multiple data (SIMD) execution units. Sorting circuitry regroups data associated with one or more of the programmable ray tracing shaders to increase occupancy for SIMD operations performed by the SIMD execution units; and fixed-function intersection circuitry coupled to the shader execution circuitry detects intersections between rays and bounding volume hierarchies (BVHs) and/or objects contained therein and to provide results indicating the intersections to the sorting circuitry.

Programmable ray tracing with hardware acceleration on a graphics processor

Apparatus and method including cell primitive for unstructured volume rendering. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a ray generator to generate a plurality of rays in a first graphics scene; a hierarchical acceleration data structure generator to construct a hierarchical acceleration data structure comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes including leaf nodes and inner nodes; traversal circuitry to traverse one or more of the rays through the hierarchical acceleration data structure; unstructured volume intersection circuitry to intersect a ray with an unstructured volume primitive within a leaf node of the hierarchical acceleration data structure, the unstructured volume intersection circuitry to determine multiple intersection hits between a ray and an unstructured volume primitive.

Cell primitive for unstructured volume rendering

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Won-Jong Lee