AMD achieves Open GL ES 2.0 compliance, brings Xbox 360 graphics to mobile platform
By Joshua Fruhlinger 
posted June 11th 2008 7:41PM
posted June 11th 2008 7:41PM
A few months ago, AMD promised Xbox 360 graphics on handhelds, and as of today it's delivered on the concept. AMD announced it has achieved Open GL ES 2.0 mobile graphics technology compliance with hardware that cranks out the same AMD Unified Shader Architecture as the Microsoft gaming console. The new graphics standard will no doubt butt heads with NVIDIA's Tegra platform, which also promises serious mobile graphics. Meanwhile, AMD's comparison of their new certification to the Xbox 360 may just be a way to wow us, but we gotta wonder if this could bring some hope to a mobile Xbox 360, whether Microsoft says they're into it or not. Good times.
Next thing you know frodo gets addicted to the handheld and cursed by the red ring of death.
I have ATI graphics on my current phone (HTC Titan) and I can't use any of the advanced stuff because HTC doesn't want to provide the driver. All these advances are meaningless if the phone makers don't bother updating the software to use the advances. Show me more than a single phone right now that even uses all the advanced graphics features currently on it's chipset on a phone with one of these advanced chipsets. I can't think of a single phone that has the 3d etc features that uses them.
The HTC Touch Diamond.
"playing morrowind on an Itouch like handheld with real buttons will be amazing!"
Wrong.
iPod Touch.
iPod Touch.
there is no such thing as an itouch.
Good gosh,your worse than those parents who have no idea about what they are buying their kid in Best Buy.
This is cool - but I somehow doubt that it really will equal 360 level graphics in the real world. Sure it has the 'same AMD Unified Shader Architecture as the Microsoft gaming console.', but I am a little cynical about blanket claims like this. And same architecture does not equal the same performance. MS re-engineering attempts for the 360 haven't been able to able to solve all problems there - so I can't quite believe that suddenly a much lower power version of the exact same capabilities can sit in a phone.
Maybe I'm wrong though. I hope I am. But there have been a lot of claims in the past about mobile 'desktop quality' 3D processors that didn't really offer anything comparable to the desktop GPUs at the time.
We'll see.
Hrm, possible future hardware to be included in the Pandora 2?
RDOD = Red Diode of Death?
@Ace b:
So what?
I don't call Vista "Windows Vista" or my 360 "Xbox 360."
It's easier to type, and people generally know what you mean when you say "iTouch."
As for the iTouch-like device handheld with real buttons, I think a PSP with a second analog "stick" and this chip would do just fine.
Im not sure how AMD can even survive on this
i think the competition from NVIDIA and Intel will be too much for them to handle
and once that company goes under, that will force IBM and NVIDIA to pull their heads out of their asses and get some good CPUs on the market to compete with intel
but if this does revive the company, i would love to see what ATI will throuw at us
hopefully it doesn't burn like its big brother...
@erik
So is iPT or Touch.
But ya do make a valid point.It's just when people say iTouch,to me,it just reminds me of all the iClones.
And for your psp,idea:slider screen with qwerty board underneath it for when your not playin games.And ya kno,possibly making it a phone while your at it.Then ya want a touch screen.
Screw handhelds. how about a slimmer 360?
And yet any AMD mobile chip can't beat the old omap 2420.