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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2013
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Steven E. Molnar, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Emmett M. Kilgariff, San Jose, CA (US);
John S. Rhoades, Durham, NC (US);
Timothy John Purcell, Provo, UT (US);
Sean J. Treichler, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ziyad S. Hakura, Gilroy, CA (US);
Franklin C. Crow, Portola Valley, CA (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 rendering graphics primitives in parallel while maintaining the API primitive ordering. Multiple, independent geometry units perform geometry processing concurrently on different graphics primitives. A primitive distribution scheme delivers primitives concurrently to multiple rasterizers at rates of multiple primitives per clock while maintaining the primitive ordering for each pixel. The multiple, independent rasterizer units perform rasterization concurrently on one or more graphics primitives, enabling the rendering of multiple primitives per system clock.