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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2021
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stanislav Volkov, Nizhniy Novgorod, RU;
Scott Pillow, Folsom, CA (US);
Joshua Barczak, Forest Hill, MD (US);
Konstantin Levit-Gurevich, Kiryat Byalik, IL;
Igor Surmin, Nizhny Novgorod, RU;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for improving ray tracing efficiency. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: An apparatus comprising: a binary instrumentation engine to perform binary instrumentation of ray tracing shaders and to trace execution of the ray tracing shaders to generate execution metrics; call graph construction logic to construct a shader call graph based on the execution metrics; shader source mapping logic to map the shader call graph to shader source code to generate a source code map; efficiency analysis logic to determine inefficiencies in ray tracing shader execution based on the source code map; and optimization logic to identify optimization actions based on the inefficiencies.