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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2022
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sven Woop, Voelklingen SL, DE;
Carsten Benthin, Voelklingen SL, DE;
Prasoonkumar Surti, Folsom, CA (US);
Joshua Barczak, Forest Hill, MD (US);
Abhishek R. Appu, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Pawel Majewski, Rotmanka, PL;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for prefetching node data. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: ray tracing acceleration hardware to manage active ray tracing stack allocations within a traversal stack; and stack management hardware logic to issue a prefetch operation comprising an indication of bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) node data to be prefetched and an indication of a cache level, wherein responsive to performing the prefetch operation, the BVH node data is to be prefetched to the indicated cache level.