Imagination Technologies (LSE:IMG) announces a new generation of
PowerVR GPUs that raises the bar on graphics and compute in
cost-sensitive devices, letting SoC vendors achieve a significant
boost in performance with no impact on silicon area versus previous
generation GPUs.
With the new PowerVR Series9XE and Series9XM GPUs, SoC vendors
and OEMs can minimize costs and power consumption while ensuring
the best possible user experience for gaming and GUI in devices
such as smartphones, automotive infotainment, set-top boxes and
TVs.
Consumers today want exciting graphical applications and
technologies in their devices, but they also often want those
devices at the lowest possible cost. The new PowerVR GPUs deliver
compelling graphical capabilities for even constrained price
points, giving SoC developers a flexible family of GPUs that
provides the right level of performance for products to stand out
at any price point.
Series9XE GPUs continue and extend the fillrate/mm2 leadership
of last year’s PowerVR 8XE series of GPUs to deliver the best
possible real world user experience for GUI, HMI (human machine
interface) and casual gaming on cost-efficient products including
DTVs, set-top boxes, streaming sticks/dongles, automotive
infotainment and cluster electronics, and entry-level mobile and
tablet devices. The range has been extended with a new eight
pixel/clock (8PPC) core which is ideal for GUI focused applications
requiring support for 4K60.
Series9XM GPUs, with increased compute density (GFLOPS/mm2),
represent the industry’s best graphics cores for compute and gaming
on devices such as premium gaming set-top boxes, mid-range
smartphones and tablets, and automotive infotainment systems, with
the ability to scale to 4K and beyond.
Both new families also benefit from improvements in the memory
subsystem, reducing bandwidth by as much as 25% over previous
generations to ensure the increased processing power can be fully
exploited. Other new features common to the 9XE and 9XM families
include a new MMU, allowing a greater address range and standard
support for 10-bit YUV across the range, without impacting
area.
Chris Longstaff, senior director of product and technology
marketing, PowerVR, at Imagination says: “PowerVR has broken the
constraints of typical ‘low cost’ GPUs to deliver a level of
flexibility unprecedented in this category. Our previous XE series
of GPUs already hit the sweet spot for power, performance and area
in cost-sensitive applications, driving a number of customers to
move to PowerVR from competitor GPUs. The new GPUs will continue
that trend, as we continue to push performance density and
flexibility to new levels. 9XE and 9XM GPUs represent the
industry’s only logical choice for companies looking to deliver the
best possible user experience at the lowest cost for their specific
mix of requirements.”
Jon Peddie, president, JPR Research, says: “With its new range
of PowerVR GPUs, Imagination is offering what we think is the
widest range of operating points to balance fillrate, GFLOPS, power
and cost for dozens of specific applications. The continued focus
on the performance and fillrate efficiency will enable this year’s
devices to offer a meaningful boost in performance like never
before, the consumers are going to be thrilled.”
PowerVR Series9XE and Series9XM GPUs – a wide range of
flexible configurations 9XE and 9XM GPUs represent the
continuing evolution of the PowerVR Rogue architecture to provide
the smallest silicon footprint and power profile. Imagination is
initially rolling out several IP cores in each family, offering
multiple ALU and texture performance balance points, coupled to
single and multi-cluster designs. The highly scalable architecture
enables easy, efficient generation of new IP cores to meet specific
customer and market demands, with increases in area met by
corresponding increases in fillrate and/or compute performance.
Highlights:
• The best performance/mm2
- 9XE GPUs provide improved gaming performance while maintaining
the same fillrate density compared to the previous generation
- 9XM GPUs use several new and enhanced architectural elements to
achieve up to 70% better performance density than the competition*,
and up to 50% better than the previous 8XEP generation
• Bandwidth savings of up to 25% over the previous
generation GPUs through architectural enhancements including
parameter compression and tile grouping
• Memory system improvements: 36-bit addressing for
improved system integration, improved burst sizes for efficient
memory accesses, and enhanced compression capabilities
• Extremely low power consumption with Imagination’s proven
Tile Based Deferred Rendering (TBDR) technology
• Support for hardware virtualization and Imagination’s
OmniShield™ multi-domain security, enabling customers to build
systems in which applications and operating systems can run
independently and reliably on the same platform
• Support for Khronos graphics APIs including OpenGL ES
3.2, and Vulkan 1.0; and advanced compute and vision APIs such as
RenderScript, OpenVX™ 1.1 and OpenCL® 1.2 EP**
• Optional support for PVRIC3, the latest PowerVR lossless
image compression technology for optimal system integration
efficiency.
The new GPUs are being licensed and evaluated by multiple
customers for TVs, set-top boxes, mid-range mobile devices,
ultra-low cost phones/tablets, and automotive applications.
Ideal for use with the new PowerVR 2NX Neural Network
Accelerator (NNA) Imagination’s new PowerVR Series2NX
neural network accelerator (NNA) lets companies building SoCs for
mobile, surveillance, automotive and consumer systems achieve
high-performance computation of neural networks at very low power
consumption in minimal silicon area. In devices such as mobile
phones where a GPU is mandated, companies can use a 9XE/9XM GPU to
manage the classic vision processing algorithms and offload the
neural net processing to the PowerVR 2NX NNA. Because of the
performance density of the PowerVR NNA and the GPUs, companies can
implement this combination in the same silicon footprint as a
competing standalone GPU.
Software and tools support Imagination provides
developers with free access to the cross-platform PowerVR SDK,
designed to support all aspects of 3D graphics application
development; as well as tools and utilities that ease development
of 3D graphics and GPU compute applications. Developers can join
the PowerVR Insider community, download the SDK for free and
interact through developer forums at
http://community.imgtec.com/developers/powervr/.
Physical Design Optimization Kits (DOKs) will be available,
offering customers the flexibility to optimize for power,
performance and area (PPA). Imagination DOKs are comprised of
optimized reference design flows, tuned libraries from partners,
characterization data and documentation.
Availability Series9XE GPU IP cores are
available for licensing now in configurations including:
- 1 PPC with 16 F32 FLOPS/clock(GE9000)
- 2 PPC with 16 F32 FLOPS/clock (GE9100)
- 4 PPC with 32 F32 FLOPS/clock (GE9210)
- 8 PPC with 64 F32 FLOPS/clock (GE9420)
Series9XM GPU IP cores are available for licensing now in
configurations including:
- 4 PPC with 64 FP32 FLOPS/clock (GM9220)
- 4 PPC with 128 FP32 FLOPS/clock (GM9240)
- 8 PPC with 128 FP32 FLOPS/clock (GM9240)
Contact info@imgtec.com for more information.
About PowerVR GPUs The PowerVR graphics
processor (GPU) family leads the market in technological
capability, roadmap breadth and ecosystem, setting the benchmark
for mobile and embedded GPUs. PowerVR is the leading graphics
technology because it is based on a sophisticated and unique
architecture. PowerVR’s efficiency through tile-based deferred
rendering (TBDR) ensures the lowest possible bandwidth usage and
the lowest amount of processing cycles per task, and all of this
leads to high performance efficiency and the lowest power
consumption per frame, outperforming other solutions. OEMs using
chips with PowerVR inside can translate this advantage into
products that provide the most amazing visual experiences with the
longest possible battery life.
Editor’s Notes: * Based on market data
available in August 2017 from a variety of sources.
** Based on published Khronos specifications, the 9XE and 9XM
GPUs are expected to pass the Khronos Conformance Testing Process.
Current conformance status can be found at
www.khronos.org/conformance.
About Imagination Technologies Imagination is a
global technology leader whose products touch the lives of billions
of people across the globe. The company’s broad range of silicon IP
(intellectual property) includes the key processing blocks needed
to create the SoCs (Systems on Chips) that power all mobile,
consumer and embedded electronics. Its unique multimedia, processor
and connectivity technologies enable its customers to get to market
quickly with complete and highly differentiated SoC platforms.
Imagination’s licensees include many of the world’s leading
semiconductor manufacturers, network operators and OEMs/ODMs who
are creating some of the world’s most iconic products.
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