Imagination Intros PowerVR Series6 'Rogue' DirectX 11 GPU

Imagination Technologies has officially announced the PowerVR Series6 graphics processing unit technology, codenamed “Rogue.”

NVIDIA may have succeeded in getting tablet vendors to adopt its Tegra series of SoCs, but it might have a hard time extending its reach.

This is because Imagination Technologies has not been sleeping on the job, as the saying goes.

As a provider of graphics and multimedia technologies for many of today's mobile and embedded devices, it has developed a new technology of its own.

More precisely, Imagination Technology has released the PowerVR Series6 "Rogue" graphics technology.

It supposedly supports DirectX 11 graphics, not just DirectX 10, as well as OpenGL ES 'Halti', OpenGL 3.x/4.x and openCL 1.x.

The first PowerVR Series6 GPUs (graphics processing units) are called G6200 and G6400, featuring two and four compute clusters, respectively.

Al in all, the new GPUs should be able to perform up to over 20 times better than current smartphone, tablet, game console and embedded device graphics solutions.

For those who want numbers, the target computing performance is higher than 100 GFLOPS (gigaFLOPS), and can even go all the way to the TFLOPS (teraFLOPS) range.

“Based on our experience in shipping hundreds of millions of GPU cores, plus extensive market and customer feedback, we have been able to set a new standard in GPU architecture, particularly in the areas of power, bandwidth and efficiency – the key metrics by which GPUs are now judged,” says Hossein Yassaie, chief executive officer of Imagination.

“We are confident that with the Rogue architecture we have a very clear technology advantage and an exceptional roadmap for the PowerVR Series6 family which our partners can depend on.”

Texas Instruments, Apple, Renesas Electronics, MediaTek, ST-Ericsson and Intel are among the PowerVR "Rogue" partners (they are the first to license and utilize the latest GPU technology).

Other companies can go ahead and license it as well.