Patent ID: 11887240
Assignee: IMAGINATION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A method of processing graphics data in a graphics processing unit comprising multiple groups of one or more processor cores, the method comprising:
performing a first render by allocating rendering tasks to the groups of processor cores for rendering and outputting data for the processed rendering tasks to regions of a memory resource;
at a time when at least one of the groups of one or more processor cores has not completed processing its allocated processing task(s) as part of the first render, allocating at least one rendering task for a second render to at least one of the other processor groups for processing; and
in response to a processor core requesting access to a region of the memory resource as part of the second render, enabling access to that region of the resource if processing for the first render has been completed for that region of the memory resource.