公开(公告)号：US20180182153A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-28

申请号：US15388915

申请日：2016-12-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Terence M. Potter ,  Ralph C. Taylor ,  Richard W. Schreyer ,  Aaftab A. Munshi ,  Justin A. Hensley

IPC: G06T15/00 ,  G06T15/80 ,  G06T1/60

CPC classification number: G06T15/005 ,  G06F9/5038 ,  G06F9/5066 ,  G06F9/544 ,  G06T1/20 ,  G06T15/80 ,  Y02D10/22 ,  Y02D10/36

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to performing mid-render auxiliary compute tasks for graphics processing. In some embodiments, auxiliary compute tasks are performed during a render pass, using at least a portion of a memory context of the render pass, without accessing a shared memory during the render pass. Relative to flushing render data to shared memory to perform compute tasks, this may reduce memory accesses and/or cache thrashing, which may in turn increase performance and/or reduce power consumption.