Tag: OpenGL ES 3.0

Physically based rendering (PBR) is becoming more prevalent on mobile class GPUs. In this blog post I will give a quick overview of what PBR is, what the advantages and disadvantages of using it are, and some tips on how to use PBR and deferred rendering when running on a PowerVR GPU. I’ll also show you how we used PBR … Continued

To further promote our PowerVR Graphics SDK v4.0 launch, we’ve assembled a collection of videos to help new and existing PowerVR developers familiarize themselves with our tools and utilities. PowerVR SDK The video provides an overview of the PowerVR SDK. The SDK includes a cross-platform OS and API abstraction layer, a library of helper tools for maths and resource loading, … Continued

If you are like me, you probably keep track of the latest reviews for upcoming smartphones and tablets, wondering which device to buy next. Part of the review process for many new devices includes a section called benchmarks. This usually is the part that turns the comments box of many websites into a passionate debate on which processor is better. … Continued

Intel® Atom™ processor Z3460/Z3480 supports OpenGL ES 3.0 and OpenCL 1.2 out of the box Alexandru Voica contributes to ‘My week with’, a column covering consumer products that use IP technologies from Imagination. When Intel first announced the new Atom Z3460/Z3480 (Merrifield) processors back in February, I was curious to find out the list of OEM partners which would launch … Continued

The first PowerVR SDK of 2014 (PowerVR Graphics SDK v3.3) is here, and brings with it a variety of improvements for our utilities. Key features include support for OpenGL® ES 3.1 in PVRVFrame emulation libraries, PVRTrace recording for Android 4.4 KitKat, the implementation of a new Monitor window in PVRTune, and a complete review and update of all our documentation. … Continued

Fur effects have traditionally presented a significant challenge in real time graphics. The latest desktop techniques employ Direct3D 11 tessellation to dynamically create hundreds of thousands of geometric hair follicles or fur strands on the fly. On mobile platforms, developers must make do with a far more restrained performance budget and significantly reduced memory bandwidth. To compound this, mobile devices … Continued

PowerVR Rogue GPUs already running demos of the latest mobile API at GDC 2014 Almost two years after revealing their last major revision to the mobile-oriented OpenGL® ES graphics API, the Khronos Group is ready to unveil a brand new upgrade to the specification aimed at bringing a selection of desktop-level yet power efficient features to mobile devices. The new … Continued

GDC 2014 marks perhaps one of the most important chapters in the history of mobile graphics. This year we will be organizing a series of sessions which will focus on ray tracing, a technology that is well known in the professional animation market, but because of cost and power constraints, heretofore unthinkable in mobile devices. Imagination is the leading provider … Continued

First previewed at CES 2014, the Allwinner UltraOcta A80 processor is now making its formal debut at MWC 2014. The full set of specifications includes an eight-core big.LITTLE HMP (GTS) CPU paired with a PowerVR G6230 GPU, providing some of the best horsepower for graphics and compute available right now. The Allwinner UltraOcta A80 is an octa-core processor with a … Continued

Welcome – This post is a few years old now and we wanted to let you know about a more up to date post called PowerVR Series8XT: pushing power efficiency to the next level which may interest you. It’s been a few weeks since we introduced the ground-breaking PowerVR Series6XT GPU family and already we’ve seen amazing interest in the new line-up of … Continued