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Quad-core Kal-El’s Stealth Fifth Core Lets it Save on Energy

47 points by darshan 15y ago

hesdeadjim 15y ago
As a mobile game developer, I am super excited about the future of gaming on mobile after looking at the spec sheets for this chip and the new PowerVR series 6 GPUs. I am in constant amazement that my phone-shaped pocket computer is a more capable gaming device than my PC of less than tens years ago.
- Aron 15y ago
  Seems like the last time I looked up the GFLOPS on my PC GPU it came in as equal to the fastest supercomputer of 14 years ago.
  - TeHCrAzY 15y ago
    Via a quick Google, some of the newer Radeon cards can push in excess of 2500GFLOPs.
    - 0x12 15y ago
      And you can squeeze up to four of those into one box! (that's going to need a pretty hefty power supply)
- 6ren 15y ago
  PowerVR series 6: 350 million ‘real’ polygons per second http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_6 Xbox 360: 500 million triangles per second http://hardware.teamxbox.com/articles/xbox/1144/The-Xbox-360-System-Specifications/p1 http://hardware.teamxbox.com/articles/xbox/1144/The-Xbox-360... I don't understand enough about the two systems to know if these figures are measuring the same thing. But if they are, the series 6 is getting pretty close.
Symmetry 15y ago
Taking a page from TI's OMAP processors I see [1]. I expect that AMD will go this route sooner or later by putting a Bobcat and Bulldozer core on the same chip, but I've heard that while the Linux scheduler can deal with that, Windows can't yet. Don't know if NVidia will have trouble with that with Windows 8. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAP
- wmf 15y ago
  All the SoCs have little cores that can't run the OS. Kal-El is the first one that can shift everything onto the little core.
6ren 15y ago
I wonder how 12-core GPU compares with the xbox360's 6 year old GPU? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_hardware#Graphics_processing_unit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_hardware#Graphics_proc...)

47 points by darshan 15y ago

As a mobile game developer, I am super excited about the future of gaming on mobile after looking at the spec sheets for this chip and the new PowerVR series 6 GPUs. I am in constant amazement that my phone-shaped pocket computer is a more capable gaming device than my PC of less than tens years ago.

Aron 15y ago
Seems like the last time I looked up the GFLOPS on my PC GPU it came in as equal to the fastest supercomputer of 14 years ago.
- TeHCrAzY 15y ago
  Via a quick Google, some of the newer Radeon cards can push in excess of 2500GFLOPs.
  - 0x12 15y ago
    And you can squeeze up to four of those into one box! (that's going to need a pretty hefty power supply)
6ren 15y ago
PowerVR series 6: 350 million ‘real’ polygons per second http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_6 Xbox 360: 500 million triangles per second http://hardware.teamxbox.com/articles/xbox/1144/The-Xbox-360-System-Specifications/p1 http://hardware.teamxbox.com/articles/xbox/1144/The-Xbox-360... I don't understand enough about the two systems to know if these figures are measuring the same thing. But if they are, the series 6 is getting pretty close.

Symmetry 15y ago

Taking a page from TI's OMAP processors I see [1]. I expect that AMD will go this route sooner or later by putting a Bobcat and Bulldozer core on the same chip, but I've heard that while the Linux scheduler can deal with that, Windows can't yet. Don't know if NVidia will have trouble with that with Windows 8. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAP

wmf 15y ago
All the SoCs have little cores that can't run the OS. Kal-El is the first one that can shift everything onto the little core.

6ren 15y ago

I wonder how 12-core GPU compares with the xbox360's 6 year old GPU? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_hardware#Graphics_processing_unit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_hardware#Graphics_proc...)