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Michael Jones (Apple) da4ef05e4d Cycles: Apple Silicon optimization to specialize intersection kernels ...

The Metal backend now compiles and caches a second set of kernels which are
optimized for scene contents, enabled for Apple Silicon.

The implementation supports doing this both for intersection and shading
kernels. However this is currently only enabled for intersection kernels that
are quick to compile, and already give a good speedup. Enabling this for
shading kernels would be faster still, however this also causes a long wait
times and would need a good user interface to control this.

M1 Max samples per minute (macOS 13.0):

                    PSO_GENERIC  PSO_SPECIALIZED_INTERSECT  PSO_SPECIALIZED_SHADE

barbershop_interior       83.4	            89.5                   93.7
bmw27                   1486.1	          1671.0                 1825.8
classroom                175.2	           196.8                  206.3
fishy_cat                674.2	           704.3                  719.3
junkshop                 205.4	           212.0                  257.7
koro                     310.1	           336.1                  342.8
monster                  376.7	           418.6                  424.1
pabellon                 273.5	           325.4                  339.8
sponza                   830.6	           929.6                 1142.4
victor                    86.7              96.4                   96.3
wdas_cloud               111.8	           112.7                  183.1

Code contributed by Jason Fielder, Morteza Mostajabodaveh and Michael Jones

Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D14645

2022-07-15 13:40:04 +02:00

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