ARM provides some details about Mali-450

Published:2012/6/13 2:55:00 Author:Ecco From:SeekIC

Some details of the Mali-450 is pushed by processor intellectual property licensor ARM Holdings plc (Cambridge, England). Mali-450 is a graphics processor which is based on ARM’s Utgard architecture.

The Mali-450, which is offered as synthesizable RTL, is suitable for entry-level and mid-range smartphones. The core, codenamed Tyr, has a common software platform with Mali-400, and it provides market-leading OpenGL ES2.0 performance. According to ARM, the Mali-400 with one to four cores is used for lower graphics burdens while the Mali-450 with five to eight cores is used for higher performance.

There are close links between the GPU and Cortex-based CPUs playing to ARM’s strength and allowing minimum transistor count in the interface to save energy. However, Mali-450 does not support general purpose computing on GPU which is the domain of the higher performance Midgard architecture represented by the Mali-T604 and Mali-T658 licensible GPUs. Mali-T600 cores are expected to ship in consumer products in the second-half of 2012.

ARM has also developed a core called Skyrmir which will be intended to debut in 2014. It may be used in next-generation smartphones and mobile computers.

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