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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2019
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sven Woop, Völklingen, DE;
Prasoonkumar Surti, Folsom, CA (US);
Karthik Vaidyanathan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Carsten Benthin, Voelklingen, DE;
Joshua Barczak, Timonium, MD (US);
Saikat Mandal, Sacramento, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for merging primitives and coordinating between vertex and ray transformations on a shared transformation unit. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processor comprises: a queue comprising a plurality of entries; ordering circuitry/logic to order triangles front to back within the queue; pairing circuitry/logic to identify triangles in the queue sharing an edge and to merge the triangles sharing an edge to produce merged triangle pairs; and shared transformation circuitry to alternate between performing vertex transformations on vertices of the merged triangle pairs and to performing ray transformations on ray direction/origin data.