Intel is entering the GPU space with the launch of its new Arc brand. The Arc series will take on Nvidia GeForce and AMD Radeon GPUs.
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The company also announced two complementary GPUs for AI-enhanced gaming graphics and for vibrant 4x4 full HD video walls.
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Incapable of properly recovering after a heavy blow from longtime partner Apple, the UK-based Imagination Technologies Group is seeking bidders.
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Longtime Apple partner and PowerVR GPU maker Imagination Technologies has confirmed future iPhones may pack in-house graphics processing units.
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Series8XT chips are expected to implement the architecture with integrated products going to market next year. Maybe that includes the iPhone 9?
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Imagination Technologies, which is behind the PowerVR brand of GPUs, may be working on a new series of mobile graphics chips that will be found in the next iPhone.
The Linley Group noted earlier on that the iPhone 7 recycled the PowerVR GT7600 in its design for its A10 Fusion silicon package — the Series7XT processor was previously seen as far back as on the Apple A9. The benchmarks have consistently returned stellar results for pixel pushing, far beyond what many competitors have been able to achieve at full-blast. But the GT6700 can overheat the iPhone with prolonged chugging and do a number on the device’s battery.
That’s where the Series8XT comes into play for the iPhone 8. Analysts say that it will get more horsepower while cutting down power consumption. Imagination states that 8XT will accommodate more features and functions than prior products have. A product lineup is expected at the Game Developers Conference in late February.
Imagination Technologies has been the subject of rumors over its relationship with Apple and whether Infinite Loop would buy it out. PowerVR designs have been in every iPhone and the Series7XT chips are in the current batch of the top-end Helio processors from MediaTek — fending off competition from ARM’s base design and Qualcomm’s native Adreno GPU.
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A supposed development board for the upcoming Snapdragon 835 chipset has shown up on the listings of GFXBench and what tests have found is that Qualcomm has made vast improvements with its Adreno GPU.
If what we are seeing is true, then we can affirm that the 835 will have eight cores. They are said to sport the proprietary Kryo 200 design from Qualcomm. In addition, there’s a 5.9-inch quad HD display, about 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage to back up this Android Nougat workhorse.
The Adreno 540 GPU seems to be the star, taking things considerably higher than the Adreno 530 as featured on the Snapdragon 820 and 821.
Comparing results between the workboard — again, an Adreno 540 driving 1440p pictures — with a OnePlus 3T, — a Snapdragon 821 with the Adreno 530 at 1080p — we find a 20 to 30 percent improvement in grindstone performance on average.
The results are below. We should note that none of what are considered the “high-level tests” were done onscreen:
| Tests | Total frames / Adreno 540 | Total frames / Adreno 530 | FPS / Adreno 540 | FPS / Adreno 530 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Driver Overhead 2 (OpenGL ES 3.0) | 1176 | 527 | 59.2 | 17.6 |
| Driver Overhead 2 (Offscreen) | 2444 | 1071 | 40.7 | 17.9 |
| ALU 2 (OpenGL ES 3.0) | 1602 | 1781 | 53.4 | 59.4 |
| ALU 2 (Offscreen) | 5156 | 4977 | 83.9 | 83.0 |
| Tessellation (OpenGL ES 3.1 + AEP) | 1713 | 1783 | 57.1 | 59.4 |
| Tessellation (Offscreen) | 4545 | 4233 | 75.8 | 70.6 |
| T-Rex (OpenGL ES 2.0/Offscreen) | 6434 | 5266 | 114.9 | 94.0 |
| Manhattan (OpenGL ES 3.0/Offscreen) | 3833 | 3029 | 61.8 | 48.9 |
| Manhattan 3.1 (OpenGL ES 3.1/Offscreen) | 2567 | 2040 | 41.4 | 32.9 |
We have not been able to independently view all of the test results ourselves because the source page has become inaccessible to us, but all of these signs are encouraging and more VR-friendly than ever before.
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If you listen too closely to the rumor mill, you may get the impression Apple wants to take over the world. Self-driving cars, borderless phones, video streaming services, medical-grade wearables, smart speakers, everything and anything you can imagine is said to be in the Cupertino pipeline.But before letting your imagination run wild, it’s good to ...
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Samsung’s Exynos chipsets currently use GPUs based on ARM’s reference design, the Mali-T series. But that blueprint could change as early as next year, if talks with NVIDIA or AMD work out for a intellectual property licensing deal.That’s the word according to SamMobile at this stage, with NVIDIA rumored to be a likelier choice at this point with its ...
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The Apple A10 Fusion chip is something new you’ll find on the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus that will help the devices power through console-grade games with haptic feedback and be more power-efficient to be the long-lasting iPhones in the series’ history.The 64-bit architecture gets four cores to work with — two workhorses that are 40 percent faster than the A9 and two “high-efficency” cores that run at 20 percent of the power of the main cores. Apple notes that the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will run 120 times faster than the original iPhone — though with growing ...
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While it’s increasingly likely the iPhone 7 will be the first of its kind to use an Intel LTE modem, it remains unclear what Apple’s long-term goals might be for this new high-profile partnership. Could the Santa Clara semiconductor giant help manufacture A-series SoCs for subsequent iPhones and iPads?If so, will Intel bring its GPU expertise to ...
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There’s no denying that one of the biggest reasons why we enjoy our smartphones, is because of the gaming experience. Years ago this was really terrible, but thanks to the fact that your current smartphone is more powerful than many of the super computers of a couple of decades ago, we’ve seen giant leaps in gaming. Many of us wonder how exactly does Apple plan to raise the bar with the gaming experience we’ll get from its next iPhone, and a new announcement may shed some light. Apple has always partnered with Imagination Technologies to produce the GPUs that power its ...
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