US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 4 for "Granular GPU DVFS with execution unit partial powerdown" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,585, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Granular GPU DVFS with execution unit partial powerdown" was invented by Kenneth Daxer (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Stephen H. Gunther (Beaverton, Ore.), Michael N. Derr (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Eric Samson (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein, in one embodiment, are techniques to facilitate the partial powerdown of sub-components of an execution unit or other graphics processing resource based on the workload to be executed. In another embodiment, granular dynamic voltage and frequency scaling is enabled in which the voltage and frequen...