PowerVR SGX545: DirectX 10.1 Graphics Processing Unit for iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch
Imagination Technologies, a small semiconductor company, unveiled its latest offering for smart phone gamers. The company’s latest PowerVr SGX545 GPU is the world’s first DirectX 10.1-compatible embedded graphics IP core that is being hailed to be capable of powering HD graphics and 3D games on your much-loved iPhone. It will be the successor to the GPU that powers iPhone 3GS games.
Speed Forge Extreme on iPhone 3GS Powered by PowerVR SGX545
In addition, iPhone 3GS added a new-fan base when it showed it can run 3D games smoothly at high frame rates. This is kudos to Imagination Technologies’ SGX535 GPU. Gamers are now taking their favorite high resolution 3D games in their pockets. In addition to this, PowerVR SGX545 is also intended to power iPod Touch 3rd Generation units and other handheld devices.
The 200 Mhz SGX545 is a groundbreaking successor to the SGX 535 for high-performance mobile gaming. It is being targeted for next-gen smart phones and netbooks. It supports a lot of API platforms, in addition to DirectX 10.1, it also supports OpenGL ES 2.x, OpenGL 3.x, OpenVG 1.x, and OpenCL 1.x.
Below is the List of PowerVr SGX545 GPU Outstanding Features, FYI:
- DirectX10.1 API support
- Enhanced support for DirectX10 Geometry Shaders
- DirectX10 Data assembler support (Vertex, primitive and instance ID generation)
- Render target resource array support
- Full arbitrary non power of two texture support
- Full filtering support for F16 texture types
- Support for all DirectX10 mandated texture formats
- Sampling from unresolved MSAA surfaces
- Support for Gamma on output pixels
- Order dependent coverage based AA (anti-aliased lines)
- Enhanced line rasterization
Full profile OpenCL 1.0 capabilities include:
- Support of round-to-nearest for floating-point math
- Full 32-bit integer support (includes add, multiply and divide)
- 64-bit integer emulation
- 3D texture support
- Support for the maximum 2D and 3D image sizes specified in the full profile.
This breakthrough GPU embedded IP core will enable a lot of mobile computing devices like smartphones and netbooks win more fans from the gaming community. It is a fact that gamers expect the same graphics performance from their iPhone 3GS or PSP or netbook when they take their favorite games on the road. I myself am a hardcore gamer and my first requirement from any computing device is that it should be able to run my beloved 3D games as fast as possible with the highest graphic option settings!
Here is an iPhone 3GS full-3D racing game called Speed Forge Extreme using the power of a 200Mhz PowerVR SGX535 Screenshot. The image was only compressed to save some space. However, the actual game play was really smooth.
Speed Forge Extreme: An iPhone 3GS Game
by Almario Alcaraz, Jr., Contributor
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