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PowerVR 6 series gpu interesting ...

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Imagination Technologies may not be a household name, but they created the PowerVR GPUs that are the gold standard in mobile graphics, and are a part of the ARM SoCs you find in mobile devices like the iPhone 4, Galaxy S, and the Droid 2. Not one to rest on its laurels, the company unveiled its new Series 6 PowerVR chips -- affectionately known as "Rogue" -- that are 20 to 100 times more powerful than its previous handheld offerings. That's right, these GPUs will have the same horsepower as today's desktop computers while needing only a milliwatt of juice to deliver face-melting graphics -- the catch is that this bit of black magic won't be showing up in devices for a few years. Guess we'll just have to settle for the Series 5 chips -- like the quad core beast found in the Sony NGP and the upcoming OMAP 5 platform -- which the company promises will make their way into select smartphones "within three months." Be still, our gaming hearts.

Update: Three months? Hardly, ST-Ericsson has announced a series of new SoC processors, including the Nova 9600 that has "Rogue" baked in. The chip delivers HD video at 120 frames per second and can pull off pro-quality 3D video recording as well. Press release is after the break.

[Thanks, Rich]

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Nova 9600 will be the first Soc to include the Series 6 PowerVR GPUs
BY DAVID LAWSON FEBRUARY 22, 2011 0 COMMENTS
Next level of graphics and video are getting closer to our pockets. Imagination Technologies’ Series 6 PowerVR GPUs have been announced to deliver anything from twenty to a hundred times as significantly kick as their predecessor – the “humble” Series 5 GPUs.

The first SoC to include the Series 6 PowerVR GPUs is going to be the Nova 9600, announced by ST-Ericsson. It is said to be capable of delivering HD video at the amazing 120 frames per second, also as effective sufficient to capture and reproduce high-quality 3D video renderings.

Powering devices including the Apple iPhone 4, the Nokia N900, and Sony’s upcoming next generation portable entertainment method, the Series 5 GPUs are considered one of the very best you’ll be able to get in a mobile device these days. Such leap of performance, claimed by the expected beast of a GPU, would rival even today’s premium, desktop-grade graphic cards, while being effortless on the battery at the identical time.
 
Also some real world figures to go by .....
The Nova A9600, built in 28nm, will deliver groundbreaking multimedia and graphics performance, featuring a dual-core ARM Cortex- A15-based processor running up to up to 2.5 GHz breaking the 20k DMIPS barrier, and a POWERVR Rogue GPU that delivers in excess of 210 GFLOPS. The graphics performance of the A9600 will exceed 350 million ‘real’ polygons per second and more than 5 gigapixels per second visible fill rate (which given POWERVR’s deferred rendering architecture results in more than 13 gigapixels per second effective fill rate). Thanks to Rogue Nova will support all existing APIs such as Microsoft DirectX. The Nova A9600 is sampling in 2011.
 
One thing I am unclear about is it x20 more powerful than the SGX543 found in the Ipad 2 or 20x more powerful than the SGX440 in the Ipad 1 considering there is a x6 to x9 difference between those two chips. The x100 more powerful bit is in comparison to the very old MX chip from well over 5 years ago.

Another thing to think about if that’s x20 more powerful core for core could they have x2 cores and be x40 times more powerful than an Ipad 1? Or 80x times more powerful if its 4 cores in the Ipad 3?

It really does look like Nvidia Tegra GPU part doesn’t compete. It’s already massively behind and it’s about to fall massively further behind.
 
i thought its scary as 210 gflops is about half as powerfull as a 4870 ! in a phone ? if these chips can be linked together and they support dx10.1 maybe dx11 then 4 chips equal a gtx570 maybe 5 of them to be sure .........
 
pinch of salt tbh wait until you see the numbers @ 1080p and beyond but if powervr can basically offer what amounts to an onboard gpu as fast as current discrete offerings then goodby nvidia and ati.

However I doubt it is going to happen:) Larabee failed to happen (intel are quite good at what they do) and I remember another company sometime ago claiming they had made a breakthrough in gpu performance but for some reason the part was never launched......

Hope it does though would love a tiny and powerful gaming pc.

I suspect this is marketing hype to make sure their gpu's are preferred to nvidias in the mobile space.
 
dazzerd that's just what almost everyone said when I said the Ipad2 PowerVR GPU would be up to x8 time faster over last gen and look it was. PowerVR have a proven track record of hitting what they say. They don't do made up marketing numbers or at least have never yet.

PowerVR don't really need to hype to make there GPU preferred over Nivida in the mobile space. Not when Nvidia best is over half the speed of PowerVR and in some benchmarks Nvidia is almost x8 times slower.

It really is amazing how far PowerVR have pushed mobile GPU's in such a short pace of time.
 
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