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Vendor:
Imagination Technologies Group Ltd.
Category:
GPU
PowerVR Series9XM Graphic Processor
The PowerVR Series9XM family features include: an scalable compute cluster architecture; high efficiency compression technology i…
Overview
The PowerVR Series9XM family features include: an advanced scalable compute cluster architecture; high efficiency compression technology including parameter compression and the widely respected PVRTC™ texture compression; an enhanced scheduling architecture; dedicated housekeeping processors; and a next generation Tile Based Deferred Rendering architecture. These features combine to produce a highly latency tolerant GPU architecture that consumes the lowest memory bandwidth in the industry while delivering the best performance per mm2 and per mW.
Key features
- API support
- OpenGL® ES 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2
- Vulkan® 1.0, 1.1
- OpenCL™ 1.1, 1.2
- Android NN HAL
- Hardware virtualization
- Up to eight operating systems
- Bus interface
- AMBA®4 ACE or ACE-LITE
- Memory system
- Virtual Memory
- Security
- Beyond TrustZone®
- Compression
- PVRIC Frame buffer compression
- Lossless image compression – PowerVR’s frame buffer compression and decompression (FBCDC) algorithm
- PVRGC Geometry compression
- Lossless data compression – PowerVR’s geometry compression, which is performed in the Geometry Processing phase of the 3D graphics workload
- Texture compression
- ETC
- ETC2
- ASTC
- PVRTC
- Performance
- Floating point operations per clock
- 64 FP32 FLOPs/Clock
- 128 FP16 FLOPs/Clock
- Pixel rate per clock
- 4 pixels per clock
Block Diagram
PowerVR GM9226 GPU block diagram
Benefits
- Powervr GPU Series: PowerVR Series9XM
- Performance Options: Mid-Range
- Powervr Architectures: Rogue
- Powervr Markets: Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Gaming, Infotainment, Mobile, Set-Top Boxes, Smart TV, Smartphones, Surveillance, Tablets, UHDTVs
Specifications
Identity
Part Number
PowerVR GM9226 GPU
Vendor
Imagination Technologies Group Ltd.
Type
Silicon IP
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