Freedreno Gallium3D Enables Adreno 621 & 505 GPU Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Freedreno Gallium3D Enables Adreno 621 & 505 GPU Support

Being merged for Mesa 24.3 to the Freedreno open-source Gallium3D (OpenGL) driver for Qualcomm Adreno GPUs is now supporting the Adreno 621 and 505 graphics processors...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Freedreno-Mesa-A505-A621

[Eirikr1848]

Now that makes me wonder what those peculiar SOCs are… I see a challenge to get this to hit 30FPS in Minecraft. xD.

wonder if this is used in some smart TVs and Android tv boxes.

[kiffmet]

I see a challenge to get this to hit 30FPS in Minecraft. xD.

I assume that's in part due to the hardware being built and optimized for OpenGL ES, but not desktop GL. While getting desktop GL to run on these chips is possible due to their programmable nature, the HW is likely missing a lot of fast paths that are present in desktop GPUs.

[Quackdoc]

Now that makes me wonder what those peculiar SOCs are… I see a challenge to get this to hit 30FPS in Minecraft. xD.

wonder if this is used in some smart TVs and Android tv boxes.

the 400 qualcomms are used in some older lower end phones, the adreno 621 not sure about, havent seen it before myself

[jojo7887]

My cheapskate Xiaomi Redmi 8 phone has an Adreno 505 GPU. Not exactly a beast but maybe I can try running some games in Winlator when this mesa is out

[Ladis]

Now that makes me wonder what those peculiar SOCs are… I see a challenge to get this to hit 30FPS in Minecraft. xD.

wonder if this is used in some smart TVs and Android tv boxes.

The GPU performance is usually decided to write all pixels for a wanted resolution and fps. That runs the composite desktop and fullscreen video. For games needing more performance, these GPUs have a hardware scaler. So your game runs in a smaller resolution without a performance impact (like you would have by rendering a screen sized quad with the game's output as a texture). On PC you can set a lower resolution on the display, but outside PC displays and GPUs don't support that. The HW scaler is a better solution also because you can have system UI in the native resolution.

PS: The GPU is weak, but still more performant and energy efficient than doing it on CPU.