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| United States Patent | 8,839,012 |
| Khodorkovsky | September 16, 2014 |
A method of power management is provided. The method includes detecting an event, assign a first responsibility to a first graphics processing unit (GPU) and a second responsibility to second GPU, and changing a power state of the first and second GPUs based on the first and second responsibilities, respectively. The first responsibility is different from the second responsibility.
| Inventors: | Khodorkovsky; Oleksandr (Toronto, CA) | ||||||||||
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| Assignee: |
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
(Sunnyvale,
CA)
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| Family ID: | 43648570 | ||||||||||
| Appl. No.: | 12/555,344 | ||||||||||
| Filed: | September 8, 2009 |
| Document Identifier | Publication Date | |
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| US 20110060924 A1 | Mar 10, 2011 | |
| Current U.S. Class: | 713/322; 345/502; 713/320; 713/324 |
| Current CPC Class: | G06F 1/3203 (20130101); G06F 1/324 (20130101); G06F 1/3287 (20130101); G06F 1/3296 (20130101); Y02B 60/1217 (20130101); Y02B 60/1278 (20130101); Y02B 60/1282 (20130101); Y02B 60/1285 (20130101); Y02B 60/32 (20130101) |
| Current International Class: | G06F 1/32 (20060101); G06F 15/16 (20060101) |
| Field of Search: | ;345/501,502,503,504,505 ;713/300,310,320,321,322,323,324 |
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