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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2022
Applicants:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ati Technologies Ulc, Markham, CA;
Inventors:
Daniel James Skinner, Milton Keynes, GB;
Michael John Livesley, Milton Keynes, GB;
David William John Pankratz, Markham, CA;
Assignees:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
ATI Technologies ULC, Markham, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2011.01); G06T 17/10 (2006.01); G06T 15/08 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 15/08 (2013.01); G06T 17/10 (2013.01); G06T 2210/21 (2013.01);
Abstract
A technique for performing ray tracing operations is provided. The technique includes, in response to detecting that a threshold number of traversal stage work-items of a wavefront have terminated, increasing intersection test parallelization for non-terminated work-items.