A GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNIT, A SYSTEM ON CHIP(SOC) INCLUDING THE SAME, AND A GRAPHIC PROCESSING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME

摘要

A graphic processing unit according to an embodiment of the present system comprises; a primitive assembler for generating triangle correlation information of first primitive from position information of the first primitive; and a visibility tester for conducting a visibility test based on position information of the second primitive and the triangle correlation information of the first primitive and for removing the second primitive based on the result of the visibility test prior to the operation of a rasterizer.