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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2021
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Caiqin Li, Shanghai, CN;
Yanshan Wen, Shanghai, CN;
Yunzhen Li, Shenzhen, CN;
Yutong Liu, Shenzhen, CN;
Xiandang Li, Shenzhen, CN;
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for heuristic-based variable rate shading for mobile games. A CPU that includes a GPU driver may obtain draw call information for a first frame of a plurality of frames. The first frame may be shaded based on a default shading rate (e.g., full shading rate). The draw call information may be associated with per shader frame states of the first frame. The CPU may estimate/detect one or more heavy draws for one or more subsequent frames of the plurality of frames based on the per shader states. The CPU may indicate, on a per draw basis, a reduced shading rate (e.g., half-shading rate) to a GPU that generates the one or more subsequent frames of the plurality of frames, when the plurality of frames is estimated to include the one or more heavy draws.