Imagination Upgrades PowerVR's GPU Texture Compression

[Guest]

Graphics chip IP company Imagination Technologies has released a new version of its texture compression engine for PowerVR Series5XT and Series6 GPU cores -- some of which are used in today's smartphones and tablets.

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[mcd023]

the title made me think of the SpongeBob episode where they were racing boxes using their imaginations. "You need to use your imaginaaaaaaaatiooooooonnn." haha

 

[blazorthon]

Nice to see PowerVR getting an overhaul.

 

[lockhrt999]

It's so ironic that company like Imagination tech which looks so tiny in front of nVidia produces stuff which is in multiple times faster than nVidia flag ship chipsets every time.

I went to visit my friend in that company, I was really impressed. They are bunch of cool dudes.

 

[bloc97]

[citation][nom]Zingam[/nom]"There are currently about 600 million PowerVR-based GPUs deployed worldwide."Wow! NVIDIA sucks! BTW. It is unbelievable how crappy Tegra 3 GPU performance is! It is obvious that NVIDIA doesn't know how to make an efficient processor. All they know is put more transtors... and that's it![/citation]

It is easy, remember this :
For ultra-mobile :
CPU = ARM
GPU = ARM or PowerVR

For desktops :
CPU = Intel
GPU = nVidia or AMD

 

[shin0bi272]

I would have liked to have seen some screencaps for comparison but its cool.

 

[pharge]

hmm... is this update included in the new PowerVR GPUs in the new A5X chip?

 

[kyuuketsuki]

Noob question: is this a 100% software thing that can be applied to existing hardware, or does this include hardware changes that mean it will only be for their GPUs from this point on, or...?

 

[A Bad Day]

I bet a patent troll has a patent that loosely mentions GPU texture compression...

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]Kyuuketsuki[/nom]Noob question: is this a 100% software thing that can be applied to existing hardware, or does this include hardware changes that mean it will only be for their GPUs from this point on, or...?[/citation]

Undoubtedly, hardware is being overhauled, not the software or at least not only the software. It will only be their newer GPUs.