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

Claim 18:
19. A method of post shader pixel processing on a post-shader pixel pipeline, the method comprising:
receiving a coarse pixel quad from a processing cluster configured to perform a multi-rate shading via coarse pixel shading operations on coarse pixel quad fragments to generate coarse pixel quads;
varying a shading rate by performing coarse pixel operations on multiple coarse pixels within the coarse pixel quad via a pixel processing unit of the post-shader pixel pipeline;
writing via the post-shader pixel pipeline, a processed coarse pixel quad to a render cache;
evicting the processed coarse pixel quad from the render cache to a graphics processor cache memory as a coarse pixel; and
writing the processed coarse pixel quad evicted to the graphics processor cache memory to a memory device as pixel data.