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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2011
John M. Danskin, Providence, RI (US);
John S. Montrym, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
Steven E. Molnar, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Mark French, Raleigh, NC (US);
John M. Danskin, Providence, RI (US);
John S. Montrym, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
John Erik Lindholm, Saratoga, CA (US);
Steven E. Molnar, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Mark French, Raleigh, NC (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A parallel array architecture for a graphics processor includes a multithreaded core array including a plurality of processing clusters, each processing cluster including at least one processing core operable to execute a pixel shader program that generates pixel data from coverage data; a rasterizer configured to generate coverage data for each of a plurality of pixels; and pixel distribution logic configured to deliver the coverage data from the rasterizer to one of the processing clusters in the multithreaded core array. A crossbar coupled to each of the processing clusters is configured to deliver pixel data from the processing clusters to a frame buffer having a plurality of partitions.