Imagination Shows Off Console-Level Visuals, Ray Tracing Performance On PowerVR Mobile GPUs

[kcarbotte]

Imagination is at GDC 2016 showing off its latest innovations and breakthroughs in mobile GPU technology. The company is previewing console-level visuals and workstation-level ray tracing performance from its mobile PowerVR GPUs.

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[DookieDraws]

Impressive!

 

[zodiacfml]

Ray Tracing is coming.

 

[LuxZg]

Hmmm... If they'd make a big GPU wonder how much raytracing woould give fps..

 

[bit_user]

Really not impressed with that headline. Consoles are > 1.3 TFLOPS and > 100 GB/sec, in GPU compute & graphics memory bandwidth. Mobile won't touch that for a good while (probably 10 nm or smaller), and even then won't be able to sustain that level of performance due to heat buildup (not to mention battery life).

Raytracing is cool, though. I commend Imagination for their progress, in spite of the general apathy by the rest of the industry. I hope it pays off, for them.