Imagination Announces IMG A-Series To Deliver 2.5x Faster Performance Over Current PowerVR

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Imagination Announces IMG A-Series To Deliver 2.5x Faster Performance Over Current PowerVR

Imagination today announced the IMG A-Series as their next-generation GPU cores and architecture that deliver 2.5x faster performance for the same area and same power to their current-generation PowerVR graphics processors...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=IMG-A-Series-PowerVR

[tildearrow]

"The GPU of Everything"

Everything except Open-Source, for sure

[andrei_me]

I thought Imagination was bankrupt, they were just sold to another company/spin-offed then?

[betam4x]

In a world where a large majority of GPUs have open source drivers, that's actually quite sad. That being said, I'm curious where performance is relative to other platforms.

[archsway]

That’s why we’re referring to it as "The GPU of Everything as Long as You Give us Heap Big Pile Cash For Working Drivers And Are Okay With a Decade Old Kernal."

FTFY.

[mlau]

I thought Imagination was bankrupt, they were just sold to another company/spin-offed then?

They sold MIPS a while back, and tried to sell their RF/Networking division (ensigma) as well, which apparently no one wanted.
Like you I'm surprised imgtec still exists

[clementhk]

They sold MIPS a while back, and tried to sell their RF/Networking division (ensigma) as well, which apparently no one wanted.
Like you I'm surprised imgtec still exists

Not true, it's sold to a Chinese fund and they invested millions every year to keep it alive.

[hajj_3]

The entry level gpu only supports opencl 1.2 embedded profile, the next lowest end gpu and all their other new gpu's only support opencl 2.0 embedded profile. I was expecting at least v2.1 considering this is a brand new gpu architecture.

Specs: https://www.imgtec.com/powervr-gpu/axm-8-256/

[uid313]

Imagination Technologies sucks, their have no open source code at all, and their device drivers are very proprietary. They were only kept a float by Apple then Apple dumped them and they were free falling. Better with ARM Mali, Adreno, Vivante, and even Broadcom VideoCore.

[willmore]

Better with ARM Mali, Adreno, Vivante, and even Broadcom VideoCore.

Damn, how crappy do you have to be when VideoCore is better than you? I was going to reply to correct you, but damn, you're right. And not even by just a little bit. Damn....