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A lot of you have been asking us recently about chipsets using PowerVR GPUs and mobile devices using these SoCs that you can buy worldwide.
This blog post lists the most popular smartphones and tablets using PowerVR Rogue GPUs. I also plan to update this article periodically, by adding new SoCs and devices as they appear, so you may want to bookmark it in case you want to see what’s new in the world of mobile.
Let’s start with the chipsets first. There are more than ten publicly announced SoCs that utilize PowerVR Series6 GPUs:
Actions Semiconductor ATM9009 (part of the new Falcon series) (64-bit quad-core CPU, PowerVR G6230 GPU) for tablets and OTT set-top boxes
Allwinner UltraOcta A80 (32-bit octa-core CPU, PowerVR G6230 GPU) for tablets, set-top boxes, portable game consoles and many more
Intel Atom™ Z3460/Z3480 Merrifield (64-bit dual-core CPU, PowerVR G6400 GPU) and Z3560/Z3580 Moorefield (64-bit quad-core CPU, PowerVR G6430 GPU) for smartphones and tablets
LG H13 (32-bit dual-core CPU, PowerVR G6200 GPU) for smart TVs
MediaTek MT8135 (32-bit quad-core CPU, PowerVR G6200 GPU) for tablets and MT6595 (32-bit octa-core CPU, PowerVR G6200 GPU) for smartphones
Renesas R-Car H2 (32-bit octa-core CPU, PowerVR G6400 GPU) for automotive
Rockchip RK3368 (64-bit octa-core CPU, PowerVR G6110 GPU) for tablets and OTT set-top boxes
Depending on the target CPU architecture you are developing for, you can choose any of the devices below:
Onda V989 (Allwinner UltraOcta A80T)
Onda V989 (buy here) is an affordable and versatile Android tablet. It features a high-resolution 9.7″ screen (2048 x 1536 pixels), 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of flash storage.
Onda V989
We’ve also tested all of our latest PowerVR SDK tools, utilities and examples on this device, making it a very good platform for application bring-up.
Google Nexus Player (Intel Atom Z3560)
The Nexus Player is the first device to bring the Android TV experience to your living room. It is manufactured by Asus, doubles as a micro-games console for playing your favorite Android games and supports a dedicated, custom-built gamepad controller. The Nexus Player uses a 1.8 GHz quad-core Intel Atom Z3560 processor that includes a PowerVR G6430 GPU, backed up by 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of flash storage.
Google Nexus Player
Since PowerVR G6430 supports both medium- and high-precision rendering, developers can develop their OpenGL ES 3.x code using both the FP32 and FP16 ALU cores inside the GPU.
New Dell Venue 7 (Intel Atom™ Z3460) and 8 (Intel Atom Z3480)
Dell Venue 7 and 8 3000 Series (2014) (buy here or here) are two new lightweight Android tablets that are powerful and stylish, featuring a high-resolution screen and award-winning audio.
Dell Venue 8
Furthermore, both devices ship with OpenCL drivers working out of the box. Check out our GPU compute page for more information on how to get started writing applications for computational photography, video transcoding, computer vision or augmented reality.
Meizu MX4 or Lenovo VIBE X2 (MediaTek MT6595)
Meizu MX4 (buy here) and Lenovo VIBE X2 (buy here) are two unique yet affordable smartphones that offer 4G LTE and True8Core™technologies from MediaTek. Both devices come equipped with a PowerVR G6200 GPU.
Meizu MX4
New Amazon Kindle Fire HD 6 and 7 (MediaTek MT8135)
The new Kindle Fire HD 6 and 7 tablets (buy here or here) include a fast quad-core processor from MediaTek clocked at 1.5 GHz. MT8135 offers twice the speed and faster graphics performance than the previous-generation Fire HD, for quicker apps and smoother effects.
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7
Special mention: MIPS Creator CI20 dev board and reference tablets (Ingenic JZ4780 – MIPS32 dual-core CPU, PowerVR SGX GPU)
For developers that wish to target MIPS-based processors, we can offer either a reference tablet or a Creator CI20 dev board running Linux and Android 4.4 KitKat. If you’re interested in receiving any of the two for free, please let us know on Twitter (@ImaginationPR, @PowerVRInsider) or in the comments section below.
Make sure you include a full description of your project, including what applications you intend to port.
MIPS Creator CI20 dev board
Happy coding!
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- Alexandru Voica -