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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2016
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Saurabh Sharma, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Abhishek Ventakesh, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Travis T. Schluessler, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Thomas F. Raoux, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rahul P. Sathe, Folsom, CA (US);
Jon Hasselgren, Bunkeflostrand, SE;
Assignee:
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06F 8/41 (2018.01); G06F 9/38 (2018.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06F 8/41 (2013.01); G06F 9/38 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques to improve graphics processing unit (GPU) performance by introducing specialized code paths to process frequent common values are described. A shader compiler can determine instruction that, during operation, may output a common value and can introduce an enhanced shader instruction branch to process the common value to reduce overall computational requirements to execute the shader.