Samsung returning to PowerVR GPU for Samsung Galaxy S IV?

3. Hunt3rj2 posted on 14 Jan 2013, 00:43 5 0

Except, you know. ARM Mali and Adreno have been basically neck and neck for a while now.

18. sid07desai posted on 14 Jan 2013, 02:07 2 6

Tegra 4 >>>>>>>>> Power VR. Others are negligible compared to T4.

21. darac posted on 14 Jan 2013, 02:13 1 0

T4 probably hits about 70GFLOPS.
It's comparable to Mali 604.
The Rogue series and upcoming Mali GPU's are much more powerful

36. picka_vi_materina posted on 15 Jan 2013, 08:39 0 0

SGX544MP3 at 533MHz will be more powerful than the 250MHz clocked SGX554MP4. You have 3 cores which are 2x less powerful but run at more than double the frequency compared to the 544. I expect better results. Tegra 4 is gonna be a sucker again.

20. darac posted on 14 Jan 2013, 02:10 1 1

Mali t-658 >> SGX 554MP3

I seriously hope Samsung will not go for such relatively architecture GPU.
Rogue (series 6) would be the s**t, but not this

29. zhiae posted on 14 Jan 2013, 05:04 1 0

it wont be disappointing i promise

4. Hunt3rj2 posted on 14 Jan 2013, 00:44 11 2

No one ever said PowerVR was Apple's GPU, PowerVR licenses their GPUs to anyone willing to pay.

7. RaKithAPeiRiZ posted on 14 Jan 2013, 00:48 10 0

thanks captain...

10. jroc74 posted on 14 Jan 2013, 00:53 1 1

Depends on who you ask and what you want.

I would choose either over Adreno. I would choose PowerVR just for possible easier compability with iOS ports. I try to stay out of the benchmarks pissing contests now...so I cant comment from that perspective.....lol.

12. serge327 posted on 14 Jan 2013, 00:55 7 1

PowerVR is more powerful than Mali GPU :)

19. sid07desai posted on 14 Jan 2013, 02:09 1 2

Currently, the facts suggest the Tegra 4 might be best gpu out there. With 72 cores.

35. serge327 posted on 14 Jan 2013, 07:26 0 0

But dont forget PowerVR will out 6 series... i think the strongest performance in the market when 6 series arrived.. But the PowerVR 554 is strong enough.. hope samsung will use it with 4 core 544 :)
*sorry for my bad english

11. datsyuk posted on 14 Jan 2013, 00:54 5 0

Beat me to it. I really hope this is true though. When it comes to Android the Exynos chips were always my favorite because Mali IMO had the best GPU choice that phones were using but PowerVR is the very best IMO.

22. TylerGrunter posted on 14 Jan 2013, 02:50 1 0

Nearly right but for one number, the iphone 5 uses the iPhone 5 uses the PowerVR SGX 543 MP3.
It has been corrected in the article.

24. TylerGrunter posted on 14 Jan 2013, 02:54 1 0

I suspect that Anand did a mistake in his calculations and the iphone 5 GPU (543MP3) is actually running at 333 MHz, so performance won't be double but 66% higher with the new GPU.
We'll see if I'm right when the first benchmarks go out.

26. Atrixboyyy posted on 14 Jan 2013, 03:13 0 0

What about the Mali-T678?

31. Berzerk000 posted on 14 Jan 2013, 05:48 0 0

iPad 4 uses the PowerVR SGX554MP4. It's compared in the picture in the article. The last GPU listed in the picture is the one sued in the iPad 4.

28. uvaman posted on 14 Jan 2013, 04:30 0 0

Agree :) As I mention above too. There is all details and infos that Octa will use Mali... So this is pure speculation

30. rickywinataa posted on 14 Jan 2013, 05:37 0 0

well, as much as T-658 is the best for big little, samsung probably want to compete with apple in terms of gpu and it will be easier to port apps with same gpu manufacturer.

or, samsung also want to play in a part where their GPU is the beast of their devices

32. Berzerk000 posted on 14 Jan 2013, 05:56 1 0

Why would Samsung compete with Apple in GPU power with a less powerful GPU than the one Apple is using right now? Especially when Apple is going to use something better when they announce the iPad 5. It makes no sense, unless they intend to put as many cores as they can with it and clock it insanely high, they aren't competing at all.

33. darac posted on 14 Jan 2013, 06:24 0 0

Exactly.
And as for "porting " of games to Android, well that's just nonsense.
Big game developers are releasing titles with a few weeks delay between platforms now days, or even simultaneously. This means titles were developed with Android in mind from the ground up.
All that matters in terms of the expected game quality is how much significant a certain hardware configuration the game is built for, is - for example the Mali 400 Exynos 4412 one is more significant than any iPad configuration actually, because it's found in more than 40 million devices.

I can say that my international S3 runs all games I've loaded so far absolutely smooth and issue free, and in top quality.
N.O.V.A.3, GTA vice city, NFS MW, Modern Combat 4 etc are not in any way inferior to their iOS counterparts.

All the people I see complaining about issues with these Android games are having other configuration

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37. picka_vi_materina posted on 15 Jan 2013, 08:47 0 0

So what if it's old, beats the hell out of all the GPUs other manufacturers can churn out.