image_load GPU Native ISA AMD Vector

Image / Texture Memory

image_load

Load a texel from the largest miplevel in an image surface and store the result into a vector register.

Encoding

Verified bit-level encoding data is not yet available for this instruction. The instruction-format classification below (MIMG) is well-documented and stable; exact per-target opcode/field bit positions have not yet been imported from a verified source.
Format MIMG

Operands

  • VDATA
    Written. N/A Data format: Value can be anything. (OPR_VGPR_OR_ACCVGPR, FMT_ANY)
  • VADDR
    Read. N/A Data format: Value can be anything. (OPR_VGPR, FMT_ANY)
  • SRSRC
    Read. N/A Data format: 256-bit image resource constant. (OPR_SREG, FMT_IMG)

In AMD's order, as its machine-readable ISA specification lists them for the ENC_MIMG encoding (AMD CDNA 2).

GFX Target Compatibility

Per-target GFX compatibility has not yet been verified for this instruction.

Related PTX Concepts

Surface/Image Load ↗
equivalent with restrictions
suld (PTX)

Related

More in Image / Texture Memory

Reference

AMDGPU / GFX ISA

Description

Load a texel from the largest miplevel in an image surface and store the result into a vector register. Perform the format conversion specified by the resource descriptor. No sampling is performed.

Example

image_load v[5:6], v1, s[8:15] dmask:0x3 dim:SQ_RSRC_IMG_1D

A real instruction accepted by the LLVM assembler, taken verbatim from LLVM's own AMDGPU MC test suite. Not from an AMD document, and not authored here.

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