Methods and systems for rendering and encoding content for online interactive sessions

A server system, comprising:

• a GPU, a plurality of encoder cores, a data buffer, and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the GPU and encoder cores, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:
• allocating the encoder cores to process in parallel a plurality of image tiles of frame data that is stored in the data buffer and defined in accordance with a rendering specification, wherein the plurality of image tiles comprises a number of image tiles that is based at least in part on a quantity of the encoder cores and comprises a first image tile assigned to a first encoder core, and wherein the first image tile includes a first sequence of blocks;
• and
• at the first encoder core:
• obtaining from the data buffer a first block of the first sequence of blocks of the first image tile assigned to the first encoder core;
• obtaining boundary information of the first block;
• while or prior to obtaining from the data buffer a second block that follows the first block in the first sequence of blocks, encoding the first block of the first sequence of blocks based on the boundary information;
• and
• transmitting the encoded first block to a client device of a user.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing one or more programs for execution by a computing system, wherein the computing system comprises a graphics processing unit (GPU), a plurality of encoder cores and a data buffer, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:

• allocating the plurality of encoder cores to process in parallel a plurality of image tiles of frame data that is stored in the data buffer and defined in accordance with a rendering specification, wherein the plurality of image tiles comprises a first image tile assigned to a first encoder core, and wherein the first image tile includes a first sequence of blocks;
• and
• at the first encoder core:
• obtaining from the data buffer a first block of the first sequence of blocks of the first image tile assigned to the first encoder core;
• obtaining boundary information of the first block;
• while or prior to obtaining from the data buffer a second block that follows but is not directly adjacent to the first block in the first sequence of blocks, encoding the first block of the first sequence of blocks based on the boundary information;
• and
• transmitting the encoded first block to a client device of a user.