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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2012
Vineet Goel, Winter Park, FL (US);
Jason David Carroll, Oviedo, FL (US);
Mangesh Nijasure, Orlando, FL (US);
Todd Martin, Orlando, FL (US);
Vineet Goel, Winter Park, FL (US);
Jason David Carroll, Oviedo, FL (US);
Mangesh Nijasure, Orlando, FL (US);
Todd Martin, Orlando, FL (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments include an apparatus, a computer readable medium and a method for distributing tessellations within an accelerated processing device (APD) including at least two compute units. Embodiments include processing a plurality of patches in a first compute unit using a hull shader to generate hull shader output data. Once generated, hull shader output data is stored to an off-chip memory when tessellation factors associated with the shader program are greater than a configured threshold. Once stored in the off-chip memory, at least a portion of the hull shader output data is dynamically processed using a second compute unit.