Imagination Technologies, the company that supplies the “PowerVR” GPUs used in iPhones and iPads, has announced a new Series6XT GPU that boasts of up to 50 percent speed boosts.
The A7 chip used in the iPhone 5s, iPad Air and iPad mini used the Series6 GPU, and Imagination Technologies claims of speeds improvements of up to 50 percent with the Series6XT:
Series6XT cores achieve up to a 50% performance increase on the latest industry standard benchmarks compared to equivalent configurations of previous generation cores. And with a significant increase in raw GFLOPS, Series6XT delivers the industry’s best performance in both GFLOPS/mm2 and GFLOPS/mW.
The Series6XT also provides the highest OpenGL ES 3.0 performance, which is quite important for games and other apps that use this graphics library. AnandTech notes that the Series6XT GPU would start appearing SoCs in the second half of 2015, so the 2015 or the 2016 iPhone could come with this GPU:
Series6XT is designed to be a moderate feature upgrade and power/performance optimization pass for Series6, integrating various innovations over the past couple of years to keep Imagination’s designs performance and feature competitive. Series6XT comes 2 years after Series6 licensing was announced at CES 2012, and roughly half a year after the first SoCs implementing Series6 GPUs were released to consumers.
Apple has used Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR graphics since the release of the original iPhone in 2007. The ties between the company are so close that Apple even holds a 10 percent stake in Imagination Technologies.
[via Imagination Technologies]
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