Patent ID: 11961179
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A data processing system comprising:
a display device;
a memory device to store pixel data for display via the display device; and
a graphics processor to generate the pixel data, the graphics processor including:
a graphics processor cache memory; and
a processing cluster to perform multi-rate shading via coarse pixel shading, wherein the processing cluster includes circuitry to vary a shading rate via a coarse pixel shading operation on a coarse pixel quad fragment to generate a coarse pixel quad and output the coarse pixel quad; and
a post-shader pixel pipeline including circuitry to:
receive the coarse pixel quad from the processing cluster;

perform coarse pixel operations on multiple coarse pixels within the coarse pixel quad via a pixel processing unit of the post-shader pixel pipeline; and
write, via the post-shader pixel pipeline, a processed coarse pixel quad to a render cache.