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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Terence M. Potter, Austin, TX (US);
Ralph C. Taylor, Orlando, FL (US);
Richard W. Schreyer, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Aaftab A. Munshi, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Justin A. Hensley, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed relating to performing mid-render auxiliary compute tasks for graphics processing. In some embodiments, auxiliary compute tasks are performed during a render pass, using at least a portion of a memory context of the render pass, without accessing a shared memory during the render pass. Relative to flushing render data to shared memory to perform compute tasks, this may reduce memory accesses and/or cache thrashing, which may in turn increase performance and/or reduce power consumption.