SGX Series5 Graphics IP Core Family

The POWERVR™ SGX Series5 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) IP core family is a series of highly efficient graphics acceleration IP cores that meets the multimedia requirements of a wide range of next generation consumer, communications and computing applications.

POWERVR SGX Series5 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 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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• Most comprehensive IP core family and roadmap in the industry
• Series5 shader-driven tile-based deferred rendering (TBDR) architecture
• API support includes OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0, OpenVG 1.1, OpenGL 2.0/3.0 and DirectX9/10.1
• OS support includes Linux, Symbian OS and Windows Mobile/Vista/XP
• Fully backwards compatible with the de facto standard POWERVR MBX

• Extensive product line supports all area/performance requirements
• Low risk solution for all embedded graphics applications
• 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