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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2020
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael Fetterman, Lancaster, MA (US);
Shirish Gadre, Fremont, CA (US);
Mark Gebhart, Round Rock, TX (US);
Steven J. Heinrich, Madison, AL (US);
Ramesh Jandhyala, West Lake Hills, TX (US);
William Newhall, Woodside, CA (US);
Omkar Paranjape, Austin, TX (US);
Stefano Pescador, Dale, TX (US);
Poorna Rao, Cedar Park, TX (US);
NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A texture processing pipeline in a graphics processing unit generates the surface appearance for objects in a computer-generated scene. This texture processing pipeline determines, at multiple stages within the texture processing pipeline, whether texture operations and texture loads may be processed at an accelerated rate. At each stage that includes a decision point, the texture processing pipeline assumes that the current texture operation or texture load can be accelerated unless specific, known information indicates that the texture operation or texture load cannot be accelerated. As a result, the texture processing pipeline increases the number of texture operations and texture loads that are accelerated relative to the number of texture operations and texture loads that are not accelerated.