ARM：Mali T604 的性能与 PS3、XBOX 360 不相伯仲。

Edison

updated 01:00 pm EDT, Sun July 3, 2011                                                               
                                ARM sees Mali chip rivalling consoles in 18 months

                                                                                                ARM's Mali processors will be fast enough to equal a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 in power, the copmany said in an interview late this week.  The T604 has caught up quickly enough that it can mat**e 2005- and 2006-era consoles in power as well as give options that weren't there before.  It will be the company's first to support OpenCL and general-purpose computing, both giving it a lift for gaming as well as opening the door to low-power servers, ARM told The Inquirer.

The company is on a longer development track than Intel.  ARM takes 1.5 to two years to release a substantially new design where intel has a new process or architecture every year.  The company would likely be moving past Moore's Law of doubling performance every two years, though, as new techniques to improve power management, as well as using much faster graphics cores, was giving practical speed boosts.

Most of those techniques involve dynamic throttling, where one or more CPU and graphics cores ramp down when unused.  The approach can keep a smartphone or a tablet from consuming too much power for basic tasks but kick in the full power when it's needed, such as for a game or HD video.

The comments largely line up with those from id Software's Rafael Brown and John Carmack.  Both expect quad-core devices like the PlayStation Vita to already be capable of running games like Rage  just as well as they would on a TV console with far fewer limitations than in the past.  

Not every company will use the new Mali architecture, but it's likely to be a staple of future Samsung smartphones.  Apple will also have at least a rough equivalent to the T604 no later than next year.

panjanstoneborg

AMBA到底是一个怎样的总线系统？

Edison

http://www.arm.com/files/pdf/Cac ... paper_6June2011.pdf

xboxzx

话说现在怎么一个个都开始吹了

66666

能支持OpenCL？

Cc.

ARM最近和AMD差不多了，一大股子NQ味{lol:]

黑猫

Cc. 发表于 2011-7-4 10:02
ARM最近和AMD差不多了，一大股子NQ味

黄仁勋：ARM是最棒的！

luckissy

66666 发表于 2011-7-4 09:12
能支持OpenCL？

http://www.arm.com/products/multimedia/mali-graphics-hardware/mali-t604.php

Features	Value	Description
Anti-Aliasing	4xFSAA 16xFSAA	4x Full Scene Anti-Aliasing (FSAA) with minimal performance drop
API Support	OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0 OpenVG 1.1 OpenCL 1.1, 1.2 DirectX	Full support for next-generation and legacy 2D/3D graphics applications
Bus Interface	AMBA AXI AMBA4	Compatible with a wide range of bus interconnect and peripheral IP
L2 Cache	Configurable	32KB recommended per core
Memory System	Virtual Memory	Built-in Memory Management Unit (MMU) to support virtual memory
Multi-Core Scaling	1 to 4 cores	A single IP covering a range of mid to high-end product requirements and price/performance points