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Kristof Beets – Director of Business Development
May 2015
PowerVR GPU IP from Wearables to Servers
© Imagination Technologies USA Summit 2
Expanding embedded GPU market opportunities Huge range of market opportunities equates to wide range of GPU requirements
IoT, Wearables, Industrial, Enterprise
Automotive Infotainment, Dashboards
Mobile Phones, Tablets
Servers, Laptops, Consoles
Consumer, UHDTVs,
Set-top Boxes
Wide range of opportunities – wide range of Feature requirements in / across markets
Wide range of opportunities – wide range of Performance requirements in / across markets
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GPU market trends – New APIs
Khronos™ Vulkan™
Low-level “metal” API
Does not replace OpenGL ES
Matches modern GPU architectures
Designed for TBDR architectures
Higher performance, less CPU overhead
Rapid roll-out expected (2015/2016)
Khronos OpenVX™
High-level API for Vision/Image Processing
“OpenCV”-like functionality
Power & Performance Optimised
Graph-based filter combinations
Fully GPU accelerated
Available for PowerVR GPUs in H2 2015
Rapid evolution of industry standard APIs for graphics and compute
Demo at GDC 2015
On PowerVR GPU
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GPU market trends – Wider range of OSes
Android
5.1.1
Ubuntu
Phone FireOS WebOS Chromium
Android
Wear
ASUS
Nexus Player
Meizu MX4
Ubuntu Ed.
Amazon Kindle
Fire HD 6
LG
UHDTVs Optimus Board Moto360
Intel
Atom Z3560
Mediatek
MT6595
Mediatek
MT8135
LG
H13 SoC
Allwinner
A80
TI
OMAP3630
PowerVR
G6430
PowerVR
G6200
PowerVR
G6200
PowerVR
G6200
PowerVR
G6230
PowerVR
SGX530
Increasing fragmentation of the OS landscape
And many more including Windows, Tizen, Integrity and a wide range of RTOS
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GPU market trends – Optimal system integration
Lossless Compression
2560x1440 Phones and 4K Tablets
Images exchanged between SoC components
Consumes significant bandwidth & power
PVRIC typical bandwidth reduction to <50%
Optimised for GPU, Display, ISP and Video
Security & Virtualisation
Ever more secure content on devices
Single zone protection now insufficient
Security is an SoC wide topic including GPU
Native GPU support for high performance
Virtualisation needed in Automotive/Server
GPU is only one part of an overall performance and power optimised SoC system
Uncompressed 1080p
8MB Read/Write
PVRIC 1080p
Only 3.4MB R/W
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Series6
OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.0/3.1
DX 9_3 to DX10_0
OpenCL 1.0/1.1/1.2 EP
Design Options:
• PVRIC
• FP16 ALU Pipelines
Models: G62xx and G64xx
Series6XT
Up to 50% Performance Gain
10 Bit YUV Formats
YUV Framebuffer
Physical Design Optimisation Kits
Design Options:
• ASTC (AEP)
• PVRIC2
Models: GX62xx/6450/6650/6850
Series7XT
Up to 60% Performance Gain
Improved Scheduling
Compute Improvements
Security & Virtualisation
Hardware Tessellation
Design Options:
• Feature Pack (DX11_2, OCL FP)
• PVRIC3
Models: GT7200/7400/7600/7800/7900
Series6XE
Area/Cost Optimised Design
Design Options:
• PVRIC2
Models: G6020/6050/6060/G61xx
Series7XE
Up to 100 % Performance Gain
Design Options:
• PVRIC2/3
• ASTC and/or Tessellation (AEP)
• 10 Bit YUV & YUV Output
• Security & Virtualisation
Models: GE7400/GE7800
Series5XE
Ultra-Low-Power Design
OpenGL ES2.0 Only
Model: GX5300
Wide range of feature and performance points
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Cost Efficient PowerVR GPUs Market segment requirements evolution
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SGX520
GX5300
GX5300/G6020
S8XE
GE7400
G6060
SGX540
SGX531
Mass Market
Smartphone
Mass Market
UHDTV
Entry Level
HDTV
Entry Level
Smartphone
Smartwatch
and IoT
Entry Level
Automotive
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Performance Efficient PowerVR GPUs Market segment requirements evolution
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G6400
GX6450
GT7600
S8XT
GT7200
GX6250
G6230
544MP2
High-end
Tablet
High-end
Automotive
Mid-Range
Automotive
Mass Market
Tablet
High-end
Smartphone
High-end
UHDTV
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Upcoming GPU technologies – HSA
Heterogeneous System Architecture
Efficient execution on CPU, GPU and beyond
Efficiency Building Blocks
Full Cache Coherency
Reduced bandwidth and improved efficiency
User Mode Queues
Significant reduction in work item latency
Signals
Efficient control over scheduling and synchronisation
Benefits for Compute but also Graphics
Staged roll-out from 2016 onwards
Efficient execution of workloads in an SoC environment
GPU CPU
Core
Large Cache
Core Scheduler
SIMD SIMD
Small
Cache
Small
Cache
SIMD
Small
Cache
Unified Coherent Memory
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Upcoming GPU technologies – Ray Tracing
Embedded GPUs caught up with Desktop
Same feature set available – what’s next ?
Benefits of Ray Tracing
Improved image quality
Simplified algorithms
Lower cost content development
PowerVR Wizard Architecture
Highly efficient technology – Patent protected
Scalable: Full or hybrid ray tracing
Optimal integration of GPU with Ray Tracing
Hardware accelerators for lowest power
Ray Tracing Traditional
Performance 209% 100%
Twice the FPS with better image quality
Bandwidth 49% 100%
Half the bandwidth with better image quality
Analysis of Cascaded Shadowmap versus Ray Tracing
Disruptive graphics processing technology
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PowerVR Competitive Benefits
Architectural Performance Benefits
Patented Tile Based Deferred Rendering
Multi-threaded multi-tasking scalar ALUs
MicroKernel driven for optimal flexibility
Power Efficiency
Extensive automatic clock gating
PowerGearing™ - Performance/power levels
MicroKernel driven Direct Power Management
Continued and extending market-leadership
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100%
120%
PowerVR S6XT Competitor A Competitor B Competitor C
Manhattan HD Trex HD
10-20% Better
20-30% Better
Almost 40% Better PowerVR Delivers High Sustained
Performance within Power Budget
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PowerVR Graphics Strengths - Summary
Range of Solutions
- Cluster Scalability - Feature Scalability - DOK Optimisation
Efficiency Focussed
- Performance/mW - Performance/mm2 - Bandwidth Reduction
Software & Ecosystem
- Leading API Support - Free SDK - Ecosystem
Industry Leading Solution – Matching Wide Range of Market Requirements