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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2006
Jeffrey T. Kiel, Raleigh, NC (US);
Derek M. Cornish, Durham, NC (US);
Jeffrey T. Kiel, Raleigh, NC (US);
Derek M. Cornish, Durham, NC (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of calculating performance parameters for a type of data being executed by a unified processing subunit. In one embodiment, a task (e.g., a draw call) is executed by a processing pipeline (e.g., a GPU). An ALU within a unified processing subunit (e.g., a unified shader processing unit) is queried to determine a type of data (e.g., vertex processing, pixel shading) being processed by the ALU. Performance parameters (e.g., bottleneck and utilization) for the type of data being processed by the ALU is calculated and displayed (e.g., stacked graph). Accordingly, software developers can visualize component workloads of a unified processing subunit architecture. As a result, utilization of the unified processing subunit processing a particular data may be maximized while bottleneck is reduced. Therefore, the efficiency of the unified processing subunit and the processing pipeline is improved.
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