Imagination releases PowerVR 6 – more powerful than HD 7750

Imagination Technologies has broadened its lineup with the PowerVR 6 series graphics licenses and announces PowerVR G6230 and G6430. These are made for manufacturers that wants to “go all out” during the development of new system processors, with theoretic performance over 1 TFLOPS.

PowerVR G6200 and G6400 are graphics porcessors that will appear in future system processors for smartphones and other units. For the actor that wants to develop a system processor and is not limited by a tight energy budget the new G6230 and G6430 are perfect. Imagination says that the PowerVR 6 series will offer performance from 100 GFLOPS (Giga Floating-Point Operations Per Second) up to 1 TFLOPS for the most powerful alternatives. This sets the new candidates above Radeon HD 7750 in performance, at least in theory.

The new architecture Rogue in the 6 series is designed for scalability, which means you can add more execution units for higher performance. While G6200 and G6400 are limited to one cluster, G6230 and G6430 can be licensed in dual-core and quad-core designs. Rogue will also support OpenGL 3.x/4.x and DirectX 10, while select members also supports all the functions of the latest DirectX 11.1 standard.

The architecture uses so called tile latent based rendering, which makes it more tolerant for high latencies and not demand as much bandwidth as other solutions. Something Imagination says makes Rogue the best performance in relative die size and energy consumption over competing products.

PowerVR 6 “Rogue” will surely be found in future system processors

Until there are system processors based on Rogue it can only be speculated what this will mean to the market. G6230 and G6430 clearly target the larger units like tablets and TVs. PowerVR is often integrated together with ARM processors that Microsoft will support with Windows 8 (Windows RT). It is therefore not unlikely that the Rogue architecture will be found in future PCs, both notebooks and desktops. It will take a few years before Rogue is a commodity though.

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