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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2005
Matthias M. Wloka, San Jose, CA (US);
Douglas Sim Dietrich, Jr., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Matthias M. Wloka, San Jose, CA (US);
Douglas Sim Dietrich, Jr., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A graphics processor performs culling of invisible primitives in a vertex processing unit that includes a geometry shader or other processing engine that performs per-primitive operations. Primitives can be culled after clip space coordinates for the vertices have been computed and in some instances before at least one other vertex attribute has been computed. To the extent that this early culling reduces the number of vertices for which the full set of attributes is computed or reduces the number of primitives or vertices delivered to downstream units, throughput of the processor is increased.
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