Abstract: Embodiments described herein are generally directed to conservative rasterization pipeline configurations that allow EarlyZ to be enabled for conservative rasterization. An embodiment of a method includes a conservative rasterizer receiving a primitive to be rasterized. Based on vertices of the primitive, the rasterizer creates a pixel location stream and inner coverage data, indicative of whether the corresponding pixel is fully covered by the primitive or partially covered by the primitive, for each pixel within the pixel location stream. Based on the inner coverage data, pixels of the pixel location stream are grouped into a first group including those of the pixels that are fully covered by the primitive and a second group including those of pixels that are partially covered by the primitive. Separate pixel shader threads are then launched by the rasterizer for blocks of pixels of the first group and blocks of pixels of the second group.

Abstract: A control surface tracks an individual cacheline in the original surface for frequent data values. If so, control surface bits are set. When reading a cacheline from memory, first the control surface bits are read. If they happen to be set, then the original memory read is skipped altogether and instead the bits from the control surface provide the value for the entire cacheline.

Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses may provide for technology to reduce rendering overhead associated with light field displays. The technology may conduct data formatting, re-projection, foveation, tile binning and/or image warping operations with respect to a plurality of display planes in a light field display.

Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to GPU mixed primitive topology type processing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processor cores; and a memory to store data for graphics processing, wherein the one or more processing cores are to generate in the memory a vertex buffer to store vertex data for a mesh to be rendered and an index buffer to index the vertex data stored in the vertex buffer, the index buffer being structured to include index data for multiple primitive topology types. The one or more processor cores are to process the index data for the plurality of primitive topology types from the index buffer and fetch vertex data from the vertex buffer; and are to set up each primitive topology type of the plurality of primitive topology types for processing in a single draw operation.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines a frame rate of video content, sets a blend amount parameter based on the frame rate, and temporally anti-aliases the video content based on the blend amount parameter. Additionally, the technology may detect a coarse pixel (CP) shading condition with respect to one or more frames in the video content and select, in response to the CP shading condition, a per frame jitter pattern that jitters across pixels, wherein the video content is temporally anti-aliased based on the per frame jitter pattern. The CP shading condition may also cause the technology to apply a gradient to a plurality of color planes on a per color plane basis and discard pixel level samples associated with a CP if all mip data corresponding to the CP is transparent or shadowed out.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines a stencil value and uses the stencil value to control, via a stencil buffer, a coarse pixel size of a graphics pipeline. Additionally, the stencil value may include a first range of bits defining a first dimension of the coarse pixel size and a second range of bits defining a second dimension of the coarse pixel size. In one example, the coarse pixel size is controlled for a plurality of pixels on a per pixel basis.

Abstract: Examples described herein relate to a graphics processing apparatus that includes a memory device; and a central processing unit (CPU). In some examples, the CPU is configured to: execute a producer to issue graphics command application program interfaces (APIs); execute a driver to translate graphics command APIs into executable instructions; and based on an idle state of the producer, execute a command translation code segment of the producer to translate graphics command APIs into executable instructions. In some examples, the execution unit is coupled to the memory device, the execution unit to execute one or more of the executable instructions. In some examples, the producer includes multiple portions such as application code, graphics pipeline runtime code, and command translation code segment.

Abstract: In an example, an apparatus comprises a plurality of execution units comprising at least a first type of execution unit and a second type of execution unit and logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to analyze a workload and assign the workload to one of the first type of execution unit or the second type of execution unit. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein are generally directed to conservative rasterization pipeline configurations that allow EarlyZ to be enabled for conservative rasterization.

Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics command coordinator apparatus may include a commonality identifier to identify a commonality between a first graphics command corresponding to a first frame and a second graphics command corresponding to a second frame, a commonality analyzer communicatively coupled to the commonality identifier to determine if the first graphics command and the second graphics command can be processed together based on the commonality identified by the commonality identifier, and a commonality indicator communicatively coupled to the commonality analyzer to provide an indication that the first graphics command and the second graphics command are to be processed together. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a graphics processor comprising a hardware graphics rendering pipeline configured to perform multisample anti-aliasing, the hardware graphics rendering pipeline including pixel processing logic to determine that each sample location of a pixel of a multisample surface is associated with a clear value and resolve a color value for the pixel to a non-multisample surface via a write of metadata to indicate that the pixel has the clear value. The resolve can be a stenciled resolve that automatically bypasses execution of a pixel shader for pixels having clear color data.

Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatuses may provide for technology to reduce rendering overhead associated with light field displays. The technology may conduct data formatting, re-projection, foveation, tile binning and/or image warping operations with respect to a plurality of display planes in a light field display.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate asynchronous execution at a processing unit. The apparatus includes one or more processors to detect independent task passes that may be executed out of order in a pipeline of the processing unit, schedule a first set of processing tasks to be executed at a first set of processing elements at the processing unit and schedule a second set of tasks to be executed at a second set of processing elements, wherein execution of the first set of tasks at the first set of processing elements is to be performed simultaneous and in parallel to execution of the second set of tasks at the second set of processing elements.

Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics pipeline apparatus may include a vertex shader, a visibility shader communicatively coupled to an output of the vertex shader to construct a hierarchical visibility structure, a tile renderer communicatively coupled to an output of the vertex shader and to the visibility shader to perform a tile-based immediate mode render on the output of the vertex shader based on the hierarchical visibility structure, and a rasterizer communicatively coupled to an output of the tile renderer to rasterize the output of the tile renderer based on the hierarchical visibility structure. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include an embedded local memory, and a memory extender communicatively coupled to the embedded local memory to extend the embedded local memory. The memory extender may be configured to compress information and store the compressed information in the embedded local memory. Additionally, or alternatively, the memory extender may be configured to expose the embedded local memory for non-local access. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein are generally directed to conservative rasterization pipeline configurations that allow EarlyZ to be enabled for conservative rasterization.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to render edges of an object defined by multiple tessellation triangles. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to perform anti-aliasing at the edges of the object based on a coarse pixel rate, where the coarse pixels may be based on a coarse Z value indicate a resolution or granularity of detail of the coarse pixel. The systems, apparatuses and methods may use a shader dispatch engine to dispatch raster rules to a pixel shader to direct the pixel shader to include, in a tile and/or tessellation triangle, one more finer coarse pixels based on a percent of coverage provided by a finer coarse pixel of a tessellation triangle at or along the edge of the object.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a graphics processor comprising a hardware graphics rendering pipeline configured to perform multisample anti-aliasing, the hardware graphics rendering pipeline including pixel processing logic to determine that each sample location of a pixel of a multisample surface is associated with a clear value and resolve a color value for the pixel to a non-multisample surface via a write of metadata to indicate that the pixel has the clear value. The resolve can be a stenciled resolve that automatically bypasses execution of a pixel shader for pixels having clear color data.

Abstract: Embodiments are generally directed to tile-based multiple resolution rendering of images. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processor cores; a plurality of tiling bins, the plurality of tiling bins including a bin for each of a plurality of tiles in an image; and a memory to store data for rendering of an image in one or more of a plurality of resolutions. The apparatus is to generate, in the memory, storage for a resolution setting for each the plurality of tiling bins and storage for a final render target, each tile of the final render target being rendered based on a respective tiling bin in the plurality of tiling bins.

Abstract: An embodiment of a conditional shader apparatus may include a conditional pixel shader to determine if one or more pixels meet a shader condition, and a pixel regrouper communicatively coupled to the conditional pixel shader to regroup pixels based on whether the one or more pixels are determined to meet the shader condition. Another embodiment of a conditional shader apparatus may include a thread analyzer to determine if a set of threads meet a thread condition, and a conditional kernel loader communicatively coupled to the thread analyzer to load an appropriate kernel from a set of two or more kernels based on whether the set of threads are determined to meet the thread condition. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.