Imagination Technologies announces new mobile GPU, casually glances in Apple's direction

A company partly owned by Apple announcing a new mobile GPU? Nah, can't be anything there. But just in case you're curious, Imagination Technologies has now let out word about its new PowerVR SGX545 mobile GPU, which just might, possibly be a candidate for a future iPhone (or... something else). Among other things, it adds full support for OpenGL 3.2 and OpenCL 1.0, promises to pump out an 40 million polygons per second at 200MHz, and promises to handle high definition resolution and high frame rates with ease. Hit up the link below for the complete rundown.

[TheRogueFFAngel Posted Jan 8th 2010 4:17PM]

I'm sorry for my ignorance but how does this compare to the much vaunted Tegra 2? Or even Tegra 1?

Or are those something completely different...

[Vdek Posted Jan 8th 2010 4:22PM]

@TheRogueFFAngel

The older Tegra 650 chips do 47 million polygons/s

Tegra 2 is claimed to double that performance amount, so your looking at 80-90 million polygons/s...

[HighestRanked Posted Jan 8th 2010 7:14PM]

@TheRogueFFAngel Not sure about Tegra 2, but Apple rejected Tegra 1 when searching for an iPhone CPU

[One Love Posted Jan 8th 2010 4:29PM]

More hints, innuendo, conjecture and rumors (casually glances in Apple's direction)

[Oli D Posted Jan 8th 2010 4:34PM]

@One Love

Remember the massive Mac refresh last year, and how Engadget had the inside track all along? Maybe the same thing is coming for the Tablet.

[Canucker Posted Jan 8th 2010 5:39PM]

@Oli D

This came from an AppleInsider article. Looks like a fairly predictable processor evolution. Faster, cheaper, better. We kinda take it for granted but the design engineers sweat blood to produce these improvements.

[doutorpiranha Posted Jan 8th 2010 4:38PM]

Missing puzzle piece?

[RyanLN Posted Jan 8th 2010 4:38PM]

Just wake me up when they announce the damn thing and we can play with it, ok?

[spartandre217 Posted Jan 8th 2010 4:50PM]

It's possible that this is only conjecture but often time journalists and bloggers are given the opportunity to tests devices well in advance of their retail releases and in some cases provide invaluable feedback on the products. However they are often signed to NDA's and this may of may not be the case here.

[jdude4 Posted Jan 8th 2010 6:22PM]

We honestly can't go 3 hours without a iTabletSlateBookWorldDomination device mention...

[Vman Posted Jan 8th 2010 7:14PM]

makes me think of a psp

[HighestRanked Posted Jan 8th 2010 7:16PM]

The 27th feels like a distant future as each painful CES day goes by. Enough gimmicky TVs already!!