ARM has announced the ARM Mali-T658 GPU for superphones, smartphones, tablets, smart-TVs and automotive infotainment solutions. It enables a raft of use cases outside of traditional graphics processing, including computational photography, image-processing and augmented reality.
The GPU supports a graphics and compute application programming interface, including Microsoft DirectX 11, Khronos OpenGL ES, OpenVG, Khronos OpenCL, Google Renderscript and Microsoft DirectCompute.
The GPU works with the ARM Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 processors either in standalone modes or in big.LITTLE processing mode. The Mali Job Manager has an ability to carry on graphics processing with a reduced load on the CPU. Also, it can handle GPU compute tasks in parallel with the CPU handling the always-on always-connected tasks and has an ability to scale, up to eight cores to match the CPU, says the company.
