GRAPHICS PROCESSING

The present disclosure relates to tile-based rendering systems. In particular there is provided a new primitive list format in which a sequence of commands generated for the primitive list includes a number of different respective types of commands including 'primitive' type commands storing primitive data, 'state' type commands storing state data and 'configuration' type commands for storing configuration data, wherein the primitive, state and configuration data can accordingly be stored separately in the primitive list, using the different respective types of commands. Also disclosed are techniques for encoding the data into the respective different types of commands.