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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2022
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Tomas G. Akenine-Moller, Lund, SE;
Ingo Wald, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 1/20 (2006.01); G06T 15/06 (2011.01); G06T 15/80 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 1/20 (2013.01); G06T 15/06 (2013.01); G06T 15/80 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for efficient ray tracing. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a general purpose processor to generate a plurality of ray streams; a first hardware queue to receive the ray streams generated by the general purpose processor; a graphics processing unit (GPU) comprising a plurality of execution units (EUs) to process the ray streams from the first hardware queue; a second hardware queue to store graphics processing jobs submitted by the GPU; the general purpose processor to process the jobs submitted by the GPU and share results with the GPU.