Cloud based distributed single game calculation of shared computational work for multiple cloud gaming client devices

An apparatus, comprising:

• a graphics processor of a cloud server, the graphics processor to identify, from graphics data in the graphics application, redundant texture maps relating to common frame characteristics of one or more graphical scenes to be shared between client devices participating in a gaming session, and generate, in response to the identified redundant texture maps, a single calculation for texture maps relating to the common frame characteristics of the one or more graphical scenes which are to be shared between the client devices during the gaming session.

At least one computer readable medium, comprising a set of instructions, which when executed by a graphics processor of a cloud server, cause the computing device to:

• identify, from graphics data in a graphics application, redundant graphics calculations relating to common frame characteristics of one or more graphical scenes to be shared between client game devices of a plurality of users participating in a gaming session by analyzing the graphics data to detect view-independent graphics calculations, and perform, in response to the identified redundant graphics calculations, a single calculation for common frame characteristics relating to the one or more graphical scenes to be shared by the client devices during the gaming session.