14 DAY TRIAL // Leading chip maker ARM has just announced the release of a new GPU for mobile devices, namely the Mali-T658, a silicone that promises far better performance capabilities that previous products from the company.
According to the company, due to a doubling in the number of GPU cores, the new chip is capable of providing great performance capabilities for the next-generation mobile devices.
The new ARM Mali-T658 GPU has been developed using the Midgard architecture and packs proven technology from the company.
“Mali-T658 is the GPU of choice for use in the next generation of market-leading devices, optimized to bring breathtaking graphical displays to consumer applications such as 3D graphics, visual computing, augmented reality, procedural texture generation and voice recognition,” ARM explains.
“The Mali-T658 delivers desktop-class performance, achieved by doubling the number of GPU cores, doubling the number of arithmetic pipelines within each core and improving the compiler and pipeline efficiency.”
The new GPU also comes with support for multiple Compute APIs, and also packs support for 64-bit scalar and vector, integer and floating-point data types.
ARM also explains that the chip comes with a Job Manager to offload tasks from the CPU to the GPU, and that is can balance loads between active shader cores.
“Concurrent delivery of a common set of compatible drivers for all Midgard architecture-based Mali GPUs enables faster time-to-market and minimizes software upgrade costs for future implementations,” the company also explains.
It also comes with ARM CoreLink Cache Coherent Interconnect (CCI-400) technology, which means that it can share data with other processors in the system faster and more efficient.
“The ARM Mali-T658 GPU supports multiple Compute APIs, including Khronos OpenCL 1.1 (Full Profile), Google Renderscript compute and Microsoft DirectCompute.”
The new GPU could easily prove a great option for computational photographic, image processing, and augmented reality, as it delivers up to ten times the performance of the Mali-400 GPU, and up to four times the GPU computer performance of the Mali-T604 chip.