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Arm Immortalis Flagship GPU Includes Hardware-Based Ray Tracing
Arm has announced a new GPU family, targeting ultimate gaming experiences on next-gen flagship smartphones. The first of its new 'beyond-Mali' breed is the Immortalis-G715, and it comes with a sizable and realistically lit feather in its cap. It's "the first Arm GPU to offer hardware-based ray tracing support on mobile." Immortalis won't replace Mali graphics, though, and this is evidenced by Arm announcing two new Mali GPUs today, with many advanced graphical quality and performance features.
It's interesting to see Arm launching hardware accelerated ray tracing on mobile, at a time when even beefy desktop PCs with GPUs eating hundreds of watts require complementary technologies such as DLSS and FSR for the sake of frame rates and responsiveness. There are some technologies available for Arm GPUs that might help boost frame rates, though. Immortalis and new Mali GPUs both support Variable Rate Shading (VRS) and Adaptive Performance in Unity titles, for example. Additionally, the new GPUs from Arm are all said to offer 15% better rasterization performance and improved efficiency compared to the previous generation.
[...] Interestingly, Arm says that the ray tracing hardware in the Immortalis GPU only uses 4% of the shader core area, while delivering more than a 300% performance improvement through the hardware acceleration.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 29 2022, @09:10PM (7 children)
"ultimate gaming experiences on next-gen flagship smartphones"
since we can't afford bread
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 29 2022, @09:31PM (4 children)
eat virtual bread peasant!
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday June 29 2022, @09:58PM (3 children)
Farmville is a training program.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2022, @02:36AM (2 children)
I get that you're joking -- but believe me, the powers that be do NOT want everyone growing their own food. That would remove a huge amount of control they have over the populace.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Thursday June 30 2022, @08:09AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by turgid on Friday July 01 2022, @03:19PM
My vegetable patch begs to differ.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday June 29 2022, @10:02PM
Beans, rice, and AAA mobile gaming experiences.
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(Score: 2) by driverless on Thursday June 30 2022, @01:20AM
Apparently we can afford the circuses tough.