SGX Graphics IP Core Family

Imagination Technologies' POWERVR™ SGX Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) IP core family is a series of OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0 and OpenVG 1.1 compliant graphics acceleration IP cores that meets the multimedia requirements of a wide range of next generation consumer, communications and computing applications.

The POWERVR SGX architecture is fully scalable for a wide range of area and performance requirements, enabling it to target a wide range of markets from low cost feature-rich mobile multimedia products to very high performance consoles and computing devices.

The POWERVR SGX family incorporates the revolutionary Universal Scalable Shader Engine (USSE™), with a feature set that exceeds the requirements of OpenGL 2.0 and Microsoft Shader Model 3, enabling 2D, 3D and general purpose (GP-GPU) processing in a single core.

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• 5th generation shader-driven tile-based deferred rendering (TBDR) architecture
• Fully programmable GPU using unique USSE architecture
• Most comprehensive IP core family and roadmap in the industry
• Support for all industry standard mobile and desktop graphics APIs
• Support for all major embedded and desktop operating systems
• Fully backwards compatible with the de facto standard POWERVR MBX

• Lowest risk, highest performance graphics solutions in the market
• Shader-based architecture enables near photo realistic image quality
• Fully compliant proven implementations of all APIs
• Lowest power consumption and silicon footprint
• Low host CPU and memory system bandwidth load