This is the second in a series of blogs about floating-point quality in GPUs.
More ASTC in ARM Mali GPUs - High Dynamic Range and 3D
ASTC supports both High Dynamic Range and three-dimensional texture compression. I show how these features work and what effects they can be used for in content.
Easier OpenGL ES debugging on ARM Mali GPUs with GL_KHR_debug
We recently added support for this extension to the OpenGL ES drivers for the Midgard architecture GPUs. In this post I will write about how this extension can be used to improve error reporting and make…
Mali Maintains its Leadership Position - the best just keeps getting better!
The last few days have been a busy time in the graphics world with the great and the good collecting in sunny LA for SIGGRAPH 2012. The announcements kicked off early Monday morning with Khronos announcing…
ARM Welcomes OpenGL ES 3.0 (Halti)
Today at SIGGRAPH, Khronos announced the latest incarnation of graphics API targeted at embedded and mobile development – OpenGL ES 3.0. The new API brings many features that are present in the latest…
OpenCL with ARM Mali: GPU Computing... with no compromises
ARM has just announced their submission to Khronos for their OpenCL 1.1 Full Profile conformance tests results for the MaliTM-T604 GPU[1]. This makes ARM the first GPU IP Vendor to submit results for Full…
ARM Unveils Details of ASTC Texture Compression at HPG Conference - Part 2
In part one of this two-part post, I wrote about the first part of Tom Olson's paper from High Performance Graphics 2012. We saw how Bounded Integer Sequence Encoding allows ASTC to have a finely…
ARM announces founding of Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation
I blogged before that I was going to speak at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit. Yesterday in Bellevue I announced that ARM was joining the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation as a founder…
ASTC Texture Compression: ARM Pushes the Envelope in Graphics Technology
ARM's GPU architects and engineers regularly push the envelope in mobile graphics technology, which is why the latest Mali GPU cores offer such a unique combination of best-in-class graphics performance…
Launching Mali-T658: "Hi Five-Eight, welcome to the party!"
Just a day ago we've lifted the veil off the ARM® Mali™-T658, the second Mali GPU based on the Midgard architecture that we launched a year ago. It's been brewing in our labs next to the…
GPU Computing in Android? With ARM Mali-T604 & RenderScript Compute You Can!
Everyone is excited by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) and no wonder! Google's "most ambitious release to date" rolls out many new features that look very promising indeed: zero-click NFC…
At Home on the Range - Why Floating Point Formats Matter in Graphics
As graphics processor hardware now supports a number of different floating point data formats, it is important to understand how to select an appropriate format for your calculations, and why the choice…
Memory Management on Embedded Graphics Processors
Our latest world-class embedded graphics processor, the ARM® Mali™-T604 GPU, has excellent memory bandwidth, pixel fill rates to make the mind boggle, and gigaflops of programmable shading power…
ARM Powered Smartphone Sets New Graphics Benchmark
Taking an in-depth look at all methods used throughout the industry to compare GPU performance in the handset space as well as their accuracy (or lack thereof) is not an easy task. Uniquely this year,…
Multicore or Multi-pipe GPUs: Easy steps to becoming multi-frag-gasmic
The ARM Mali-400 MP was the world's first embedded multicore graphics processor (GPU) when it was launched, back in 2008, and Mali-T604 continues that trend. Since then, there have been a number of…
Triangles Per Second 2: A Chocolate Teapot of a Graphics Benchmark
In the first blog of this series, I claimed that as a GPU performance metric, triangles per second (aka TPS or triangle rate) is a chocolate teapot — i.e. utterly and completely useless — and talked about…
Triangles Per Second: Performance Metric or Chocolate Teapot?
For the Second blog on this subject see Triangles Per Second 2: A Chocolate Teapot of a Graphics Benchmark.The practice of characterizing GPU performance in terms of triangle rate (triangles per second…
ARM Unveils Details of ASTC Texture Compression at HPG Conference - Part 1
The internal details of ARM's Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) technology were launched this week at the High Performance Graphics conference in Paris, France.
Tom Olson presented his…
ARM's ASTC Adopted by Khronos Group
At SIGGRAPH today, the Khronos™ Group announced that the Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) technology developed by ARM and AMD has been adopted as an official extension to both the OpenGL…
How low can you go? Building low-power, low-bandwidth ARM Mali GPUs
I'm just back from SIGGRAPH 2012, the world's biggest computer graphics conference, and (as every year) still breathing hard from the excitement of seeing the latest in graphics research. This year…
Of Philosophy and When is a Pixel Not a Pixel?
It's been a busy few months here at ARM in the run up to the launch of the ARM® Mali™-T604 Graphics Processor (GPU) at ARM Techcon. In the post-launch lull (i.e. returning to a slightly…