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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2016
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ati Technologies Ulc, Markham, CA;
Syed Zohaib M. Gilani, Markham, CA;
Jiasheng Chen, Orlando, FL (US);
QingCheng Wang, Shanghai, CN;
YunXiao Zou, Shanghai, CN;
Michael Mantor, Orlando, FL (US);
Bin He, Orlando, FL (US);
Timour T. Paltashev, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
ATI Technologies ULC, Ontario, CA;
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Described is a method and processing apparatus to improve power efficiency by gating redundant threads processing. In particular, the method for gating redundant threads in a graphics processor includes determining if data for a thread and data for at least another thread are within a predetermined similarity threshold, gating execution of the at least another thread if the data for the thread and the data for the at least another thread are within the predetermined similarity threshold, and using an output data from the thread as an output data for the at least another thread.