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Abstract

A method comprising of improving texture fetching by a texturing / shading unit in a GPU pipeline is described. The method is for efficient convolution operations. The method comprises receiving a shader and determining whether the shader is a kernel shader. In response to determining that the shader is a kernel shader, the method comprises modifying the shader to perform a collective fetch of all texels used in convolution operations for a group of output pixels instead of performing independent fetches of texels for each output pixel in the group of output pixels.