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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2020
Applicant:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Skyler Jonathon Saleh, San Diego, CA (US);
Ruijin Wu, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2011.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 15/08 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 15/08 (2013.01); G06T 17/005 (2013.01);
Abstract
A technique for performing ray tracing operations is provided. The technique includes initiating bounding volume hierarchy traversal for a ray against geometry represented by a bounding volume hierarchy; identifying multiple nodes of the bonding volume hierarchy for concurrent intersection tests; and performing operations for the concurrent intersection tests concurrently.