Imagination announces first PowerVR Series8XT IP core based on new Furian GPU architecture
May 10 2017 - 11:00AM
Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) announces the first GPU IP core
based on its new PowerVR Furian architecture, the Series8XT GT8525.
Furian is designed to enable a new generation of consumer devices
to deliver high-resolution, immersive graphics content and data
computation for sustained time periods within mobile power budgets.
The two-cluster GT8525 offers class-leading performance, power and
area, as well as unique features for customers designing SoCs for
products such as high-end smartphones and tablets, mid-range
dedicated VR and AR devices and mid- to high-end automotive
infotainment and ADAS systems.
Says Chris Longstaff, senior director of product and technology
marketing, PowerVR at Imagination: “The new GT8525 is the first of
a range of Series8XT GPUs designed around our highly efficient and
scalable Furian architecture. This IP core delivers on the market
requirements for a number of high-volume applications. It continues
and strengthens the performance/mW leadership position of the
PowerVR XT family, whilst supporting a very rich set of
features.”
Says Jon Peddie, president, JPR Research: “Imagination has an
extremely strong track record at the high end of the mobile market,
and the Furian architecture extends that technology leadership.
With the GT8525, Imagination is delivering a new performance point
for off-the-shelf mobile GPUs, while continuing to provide great
power efficiency, in large part due to techniques like Tile Based
Deferred Rendering (TBDR).”
Says Tatiana Solokhina, CTO, RnD Center ELVEES: “As a provider
of SoCs for a wide range of global video analytics applications, we
require a GPU that offers the best compute performance in a power
constrained footprint. The new PowerVR Furian 8XT family from
Imagination provides us an industry-leading GPU with new ALU for
increased performance density and efficiency. In addition, support
for standard compute APIs such as OpenVX enables easy
implementation of real world vision processing applications.”
Addressing the needs of next generation
applications The Furian architecture is designed for the
evolved graphics and compute needs of next-generation consumer
devices:
- Smartphones: the GT8525 addresses the need for
continuous improvements in sustained performance for gaming in
constrained power footprints, including for mobile VR uses. It also
allows new mobile use cases requiring greater compute availability,
such as the use of neural networks (including CNNs) for object
identification.
- Automotive: with dramatically increased
compute efficiency and built-in hardware virtualization, the GT8525
addresses the increasing trend toward combining infotainment with
electronic dash and some ADAS functionality on the same SoC. OEMs
can enable isolation of concurrent functions and services to ensure
greater safety and security while saving on valuable silicon
area.
- AR/VR: the GT8525 provides the high resolution
and high sustained frame rate graphics required for a great user
experience on standalone AR/VR headsets. The GT8525 includes
hardware and software specifically designed for minimizing the
critical motion-to-photon latency. With devices based on the
GT8525, OEMs can offer higher performance graphics and compute in
an area efficient manner. Developers can leverage the power of the
OpenVX* API on PowerVR for rapid application development.
PowerVR Series8XT GT8525 by the numbers The
Furian architecture is designed for enhanced performance, with
power efficiency, setting it apart from competing solutions in
performance per mW. Compared to the Series7XT GT7200 GPU, the
GT8525 achieves:
- More than 50% fps improvement on the industry-standard
Manhattan benchmark test, one of the de-facto benchmarks for mobile
and other applications, and 80% TRex
- More than 50% improvement in fps for the Antutu benchmark –
another key benchmark
- 2x PPC throughput (8 pixels/clock compared with 4 for GT7200),
allowing for higher resolutions, and additional performance for
previously fill rate limited use cases
- 50% more GFLOPs, and more accessible GFLOPs, enabling easier
exploitation of the cores full potential for graphics and
compute
The Furian difference The Furian architecture
at the heart of the GT8525 features improvements in performance
density, GPU efficiency, and system efficiency which lead to lower
power and a better user experience for next-generation
applications. It incorporates many of the compelling features on
which PowerVR has built its technology leadership, including
Imagination’s Tile Based Deferred Rendering (TBDR), which has been
proven over multiple generations of PowerVR GPUs to provide the
most highly efficient embedded graphics.
Furian also features a new 32-wide ALU cluster design for
increased performance density and efficiency. A new instruction set
architecture (ISA) in the primary and secondary ALU pipelines
enables improved utilization of resources and thus efficiency, and
multi-threading optimizations allow efficient and very flexible
access to on-chip local compute memory. Furian is designed to
address the increasing compute requirements across multiple
applications and market segments with efficient use of compute APIs
including OpenCL® 2.0, Vulkan® 1.0 and OpenVX 1.1*.
Availability The GT8525 has already been
delivered to lead customers; it is available for licensing now.
Contact info@imgtec.com for more information.
About PowerVR GPUs The PowerVR graphics
processor (GPU) family leads the market in technological
capability, roadmap breadth and ecosystem, setting the benchmark
for mobile and embedded GPUs. PowerVR is the leading graphics
technology because it is based on a sophisticated and unique
architecture. PowerVR’s efficiency through tile-based deferred
rendering (TBDR) ensures the lowest possible bandwidth usage and
the lowest amount of processing cycles per task, and all of this
leads to high performance efficiency and the lowest power
consumption per frame, outperforming other solutions. OEMs using
chips with PowerVR inside can translate this advantage into
products that provide the most amazing visual experiences with the
longest possible battery life.
Editor’s Notes: * Based on a published Khronos
specification, the GT8525 GPU is expected to pass the Khronos
Conformance Testing Process. Current conformance status can be
found at www.khronos.org/conformance.
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(intellectual property) includes the key processing blocks needed
to create the SoCs (Systems on Chips) that power all mobile,
consumer and embedded electronics. Its unique multimedia, processor
and connectivity technologies enable its customers to get to market
quickly with complete and highly differentiated SoC platforms.
Imagination’s licensees include many of the world’s leading
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are creating some of the world’s most iconic products.
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