Sure, today’s tablets and smartphones are pretty darned powerful beasts. In just a few short years, we’ve gone from devices that could barely play Snake well to, well, Infinity Blade 2. But the next generation of ARM GPUs? They might make Infinity Blade 2 look like Pong.
Announced today, the Mali-T658 is said to offer four times the graphics performance of the current generation of ARM GPUs, such as those that run the display on the very popular Samsung Galaxy S II. The Mali-T658 can be deployed as a single core (look for those in tomorrow’s budget lines) or in four or eight-core configurations; that’ll be the higher end taken care of — and that’s what I’m drooling after right now. [BBC]
Tsukasa
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 4:20 PMJust going to throw it out there, that video was all different types of lame.
Peter
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 4:36 PMThe Mali-400 before it could be built in 1,2,or 4 cores. But even so, when it was used in production, only a single core was used due to the lack of software support for multi-gpu cores.
Gabriel
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 4:58 PMWhy did that guy need an indicator on his phone for a shop that was 50 meters ahead of him??
Ozoneocean
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 6:01 PMProbably an iphone user. :)
No, that’s unfair. Many smartphone users are exactly that dependant at times, and I don’t exclude myself. You can become far TOO reliant on the things.
Dason
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 6:09 PMHow does this compare to the Tegra 3?
Chris
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 10:30 PMNone of those demos looked all that graphical intensive, so IDK how that shows the power of the next Mali GPU, rather the majority of those 3d models could be viewed on current gen phones and tablets fine.