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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2011
Filed:
May. 05, 2006
Bryon S. Nordquist, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bryon S. Nordquist, Santa Clara, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for assembling pixel shader program threads for execution based on resource limitations of a multithreaded processor may improve processing throughput. Pixels to be processed by the pixel shader program are assembled into a launch group for processing by the multithreaded processor as multiple shader program threads. The pixels are assembled based on parameter storage resource limitations of the multithreaded processor so that common parameters shared by multiple pixels are not stored separately for each pixel. Therefore, the limited parameter storage resources are efficiently used, allowing more shader program threads to execute simultaneously.