Patent ID: 6999088

Claim:
A method of organizing tile data in a partitioned graphics memory having a plurality of partitions, comprising: organizing tile data as an array of subpackets of information, wherein each subpacket has a tile location and a data size corresponding to that of a memory transfer data size of subpartitions of said partitioned graphics memory; for a first tile associated with one particular partition having a first subpartition and a second subpartition, pairing a first set of subpackets having a first set of tile locations with said first subpartition and pairing a second set of subpackets having a second set of tile locations with said second subpartition, wherein tile data may be accessed with a memory transfer data size less than that associated with a partition; and for a second tile associated with said one particular partition, pairing a first set of subpackets having said second set of tile locations with said first subpartition and pairing a second set of subpackets having said first set of tile locations with said second subpartition; wherein corresponding tile locations in said first tile and said second tile are paired with different subpartitions.