Patent 12067649 was granted and assigned to Advanced Micro Devices on August, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A disclosed technique includes determining a plurality of per-pixel variable rate shading rates for a plurality of fragments; determining a coarse variable shading rate for a coarse variable rate shading area based on the plurality of per-pixel variable rate shading rates; and shading one or more fragments based on the plurality of fragments and based on the coarse variable shading rate.