Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a processor receives an incoming data stream that includes alpha channel data, and a memory stores an application programming interface (API). The API is to route the alpha channel data to a fixed point blending unit to perform one or more blending operations using fixed point representation of the alpha channel data. The API is further to route the incoming data stream to a floating point blending unit to perform operations involving floating point representation of the incoming data.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to blend two or more of the scene surfaces based on the focus area and an offload threshold. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to blend, by a display engine, two or more of the focus area scene surfaces and blended non-focus area scene surfaces. The systems, apparatuses and methods may include a graphics engine to render the focus area surfaces at a higher sample rate than the non-focus area scene surfaces.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate control flow in a graphics processing system is disclosed. The apparatus includes logic a plurality of execution units to execute single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) and flow control logic to detect a diverging control flow in a plurality of SIMD channels and reduce the execution of the control flow to a subset of the SIMD channels.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to render augmented reality and virtual reality (VR/AR) environment information. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to selectively suppress and enhance VR/AR renderings of n-dimensional environments. The systems, apparatuses and methods may deepen a user's VR/AR experience by focusing on particular feedback information, while suppressing other feedback information from the environment.

Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus comprises a memory comprising one or more physical memory chips, and a processor to implement a working set monitor to monitor a working set resident in the one or more physical memory chips. The working set monitor is to adjust a number of the physical memory chips that are powered on based on a size of the working set.

Abstract: An embodiment of a parallel processor apparatus may include a sample pattern selector to select a sample pattern for a pixel, and a sample pattern subset selector communicatively coupled to the sample pattern selector to select a first subset of the sample pattern for the pixel corresponding to a left eye display frame and to select a second subset of the sample pattern for the pixel corresponding to a right eye display frame, wherein the second subset is different from the first subset. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a context engine to determine contextual information, a recommendation engine communicatively coupled to the context engine to determine a recommendation based on the contextual information, and a configuration engine communicatively coupled to the recommendation engine to adjust a configuration of a graphics operation based on the recommendation. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that identifies a redundant portion of a packaged on-die memory and detects, during a field test of the packaged on-die memory, one or more failed cells in the packaged on-die memory. Additionally, one or more memory cells in the redundant portion may be substituted for the one or more failed memory cells.

Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of reducing dynamic power consumption within a processor device. One embodiment provides a technique for dynamic link width reduction based on the instantaneous throughput demand for client of an interconnect fabric. One embodiment provides for a parallel processor comprising an interconnect fabric including a dynamic bus module to configure a bus width for a client of the interconnect fabric based on throughput demand from the client.

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, apparatuses, and methods may provide for technology to process graphical data, and to modify a runtime environment in a parallel computing platform for a graphic environment.

Abstract: An apparatus to facilitate compute optimization is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of processing units each comprising a plurality of execution units (EUs), wherein the plurality of EUs comprise a first EU type and a second EU type.

Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor, an object space adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust an object space parameter based on a screen space parameter, and a sample adjuster communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to adjust a sample parameter of the graphics subsystem based on a detected condition. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, system memory communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics processor communicatively coupled to the application processor, graphics memory communicatively coupled to the graphics processor, and persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor and the graphics processor to store one or more graphics assets, wherein the graphics processor is to access the one or more graphics asset mapped from the persistent storage media. The persistent storage media may include a low latency, high capacity, and byte-addressable nonvolatile memory. The one or more graphics assets may include one or more of a mega-texture and terrain data. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

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: An apparatus and method for collecting and using profile data during graphics processing. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a graphics processor to process graphics commands responsive to execution of an application; and profile storage to store graphics execution profile data associated with one or more graphics workloads; and a profile manager to read the profile data upon detecting one of the graphics workloads during execution of the application and to configure the graphics processor in accordance with the profile data.

Abstract: An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor, a sense engine communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to provide sensed information, a focus engine communicatively coupled to the sense engine and the graphics subsystem to provide focus information, a motion engine communicatively coupled to the sense engine, the focus engine, and the graphics subsystem to provide motion information, and a motion biased foveated renderer communicatively coupled to the motion engine, the focus engine, the sense engine to adjust one or more parameters of the graphics subsystem based on one or more of the sense information, the focus information, and the motion information. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide away to render augmented reality (AR) and/or virtual reality (VR) sensory enhancements using ray tracing. More particularly, systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to normalize environment information captured by multiple capture devices, and calculate, for an observer, the sound sources or sensed events vector paths. The systems, apparatuses and methods may detect and/or manage one or more capture devices and assign one or more the capture devices based on one or more conditions to provide observer an immersive VR/AR experience.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods may provide for technology to render and compress stereoscopic graphical data. In one example, the technology identifies, from graphical data associated with a stereoscopic image defined by a first perspective view and a second perspective view, a background region and a foreground region of a graphical scene in the stereoscopic image, renders graphical data of the identified background region for the first perspective view, and compresses the rendered graphical data.

Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, the render rate is varied across and/or up and down the display screen. This may be done based on where the user is looking in order to reduce power consumption and/or increase performance. Specifically the screen display is separated into regions, such as quadrants. Each of these regions is rendered at a rate determined by at least one of what the user is currently looking at, what the user has looked at in the past and/or what it is predicted that the user will look at next. Areas of less focus may be rendered at a lower rate, reducing power consumption in some embodiments.