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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2010
Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thomas Roell, Denver, CO (US);
James C. Bowman, Pescadero, CA (US);
Jerome F. Duluk, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Thomas Roell, Denver, CO (US);
James C. Bowman, Pescadero, CA (US);
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for reducing overhead associated with transmitting primitive draw commands from memory to a graphics processing unit (GPU). Command pairs comprising an end draw command and a begin draw command associated with a conventional graphics application programming interface (API) are selectively replaced with a new construct. The new construct is a reset topology index, which implements a combined function of the end draw command and begin draw command. The new construct improves efficiency by reducing total data transmitted from memory to the GPU.