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Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 05, 2012
Applicant:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Todd E. Martin, Orlando, FL (US);

Mangesh Nijasure, Orlando, FL (US);

Jason Carroll, Oviedo, FL (US);

Randy W. Ramsey, Oviedo, FL (US);

Brian A. Buchner, Oviedo, FL (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G09G 5/36 (2006.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 17/20 (2013.01); G09G 5/363 (2013.01); G06T 2210/52 (2013.01); G09G 2360/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system, method and a computer-readable medium for load balancing patch processing pre-tessellation are provided. The patches for drawing objects on a display screen are distributed to shader engines for parallel processing. Each shader engine generates tessellation factors for a patch, wherein a value of generated tessellation factors for the patch is unknown prior to distribution. The patches are redistributed to the shader engines pre-tessellation to load balance the shader engines for processing the patches based on the value of tessellation factors in each patch.


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