Comment by ksec

8 hours ago

With IMG PowerVR mostly gone from Mediatek roadmap. Which means ARM Mali is effectively the GPU IP on Android, excluding Qualcomm Adreno which its market continue to shrink and concentrate on premium segment.

I wonder how far or how good Mali is now compared to others. I wish Chip and Cheese do compassion on GPU as well.

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pjmlp  7 hours ago

If only that would mean a better driver story across devices and Android releases.

Unless it is a Pixel or Samsung Sxy flagship device, chances are the driver, which will never get updated, it a box full of interesting developer moments.

Just go to chrome://gpu to check the amount of workarounds enabled in Chrome alone.

  • catchnear4321  1 hour ago

    > …a box full of interesting developer moments.

    thank you, will be using this, it’s far more accurate than simply throwing the devs under the bus and ignoring all the unspoken context of said moments, while not papering over the… interesting developer moments.

teki_one  8 hours ago

Google just switched to PowerVR, didn't they?

  • throwa356262  7 hours ago

    Given the horrible GPU performance as well as thermal issues in Tensor G5 and G6, Google will have to switch back to Arm in G7.

    Example benchmark showing how extremely far Google is behind:

        GeekBench 6 Compute Score (GPU):
    Xring O3.             36901.    (the GPU in this announcement)
    Snapdragon 8 Elite G5 27501.    (Adreno 840)
    Dimensity 9500M.      23753.    (Mali-G1 Ultra MP11).
    Tensor G6.            6216.     (PowerVR CXTP-48-1536)

    • MindSpunk  6 hours ago

      The Pixel 10 and 11 GPUs are offensively bad. Not only are the Power VR GPUs slow, and less capable feature wise than Mali and Adreno (Xclipse is still around too!), but the tile Google put in the Pixel 11 is actually an _older_ design than what they put in the Pixel 10. They just clocked it higher to make up the performance difference.

      And then Google has the gall to charge basically flagship prices for their under powered junk.

      Personally I don't buy flagship phones because I don't use their full compute capabilities anyway, but a Pixel 11 would cost 2x what I paid for my Pixel 8. For 0 GPU performance improvement.

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    • ksec  6 hours ago

      >Xring O3.

      I just can't wait to see it being tested in an actual phone. So far all the data are done on development board. If they are really as good as everything we have read so far, both Mediatek and Qualcomm are in big trouble.

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