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IMG CXT GPU - Imagination Technology's New GPU

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Imagination technologies (Power VR essentially) announced their new GPU architecture (IP really) with hardware ray tracing using their PowerVR Photon architecture . Pretty much aimed at mobile and automotive, but could be scaled to more (They say up to 9 TFLOPS of FP32 rasterised performance and over 7.2GRay/s of ray traced performance)

Kind of interesting if nothing else, I didn't really think anyone was using their A/B series they had released over the past few years, at least in common devices (Licensing stuff to Apple seems like a good way for profit), but neat to see them kicking out architectures every year.

https://www.imaginationtech.com/graphics-processors/img-cxt-gpu/

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Someone needs to slap one of those on a PCIe card with some basic drivers for desktop use.
 
I think this is possibly based on it , or maybe their last gen IMG Series B, which would still be neat.

Interesting that it says it supports Directx , as I don't recall seeing it anywhere in the specs page, but I suppose that's not surprising.

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https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chinese-xindong-fenghua-gpu-announced

https://videocardz.com/newz/innosil...upports-pci-e-4-0-hdmi-2-1-gddr6x-and-directx
 
Not directly related to the CXT IP , but looks like they're working on DirectX drivers much more now. Probably still going to be mainly for the China GPU market I'd assume, but at least makes them more viable since IIRC the DX stuff stinks now. I'll still call them PowerVR btw.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...-shows-off-progress-with-directx-11-workloads

Imagination Tech working on mainstream PC gaming with ‘ambitious graphics card and SoC design companies’ — shows off progress with DirectX 11 workloads​

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By Mark Tyson published 3 hours ago
Demo DX11 video is just the start of this graphics chip maker's freshly inked long term roadmap embracing PCs.

The UK’s Imagination Technologies (IMG) is teasing its roadmap to “bring high‑performance, scalable, PowerVR graphics to desktop, workstation, and cloud environments.” We’ve seen and heard of a few false starts from IMG since the start of the 2020s, but this is the firm’s clearest messaging yet, with videos showcasing its work with Microsoft's DirectX, and stating that this work is “essential for mainstream PC gaming.”

IMG will be best known in PC circles, among folk of a certain vintage, for its pioneering PowerVR 3D graphics cards over three decades ago. It was also the graphical force behind the Sega Dreamcast (which launched in 1999). Since then IMG has spent focused on the mobile market, being a key Apple partner between 2007 and 2017.
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“Imagination Teases PowerVR GPU Running on Windows with DirectX 11 Support​

by AleksandarK Today, 17:40 Discuss (1 Comment)
Imagination Technologies has demonstrated 3DMark Fire Strike running on its D-Series GPU using the DirectX 11 API. While this might seem like a minor achievement, it is a significant milestone for the company. Imagination Technologies aims to make its entire GPU IP family compatible with the Windows ecosystem and support Windows gaming seamlessly. Since DirectX is the most influential graphics API, the company is focused on achieving full DirectX 11 support, which has now been successfully implemented on D-Series GPUs based on the PowerVR architecture. For those unfamiliar, the PowerVR GPU architecture was initially used in Apple SoCs, which later evolved into a fully custom Apple solution. This GPU architecture is one of the most influential, alongside AMD's GCN and NVIDIA's CUDA.

3DMark Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark, so getting it to run on the D-Series is a promising indication that the GPU IP can handle real desktop-style workloads and gaming, rather than just lightweight or embedded graphics tasks. Imagination has described DXD as its first D-Series product with hardware-based DirectX 11 Feature Level 11_0 support. The company aims to demonstrate that its GPUs can manage demanding DirectX workloads in actual silicon. Imagination states that DXD is designed for desktop graphics and cloud gaming, supporting DirectX 11, DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.4, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 3.0. This gives it a much broader software target compared to older mobile-first GPU designs. Imagination also offers E-Series GPU IP, which includes DirectX 12 Feature Level 11_0 support. This suggests that we might see more DirectX 12 enablement once most of the DirectX 11 functionality is complete.”


View: https://youtu.be/YRRGofPNBxw
 
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“Imagination Teases PowerVR GPU Running on Windows with DirectX 11 Support​

by AleksandarK Today, 17:40 Discuss (1 Comment)
Imagination Technologies has demonstrated 3DMark Fire Strike running on its D-Series GPU using the DirectX 11 API. While this might seem like a minor achievement, it is a significant milestone for the company. Imagination Technologies aims to make its entire GPU IP family compatible with the Windows ecosystem and support Windows gaming seamlessly. Since DirectX is the most influential graphics API, the company is focused on achieving full DirectX 11 support, which has now been successfully implemented on D-Series GPUs based on the PowerVR architecture. For those unfamiliar, the PowerVR GPU architecture was initially used in Apple SoCs, which later evolved into a fully custom Apple solution. This GPU architecture is one of the most influential, alongside AMD's GCN and NVIDIA's CUDA.

3DMark Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark, so getting it to run on the D-Series is a promising indication that the GPU IP can handle real desktop-style workloads and gaming, rather than just lightweight or embedded graphics tasks. Imagination has described DXD as its first D-Series product with hardware-based DirectX 11 Feature Level 11_0 support. The company aims to demonstrate that its GPUs can manage demanding DirectX workloads in actual silicon. Imagination states that DXD is designed for desktop graphics and cloud gaming, supporting DirectX 11, DirectX 12, Vulkan 1.4, OpenGL 4.6, and OpenCL 3.0. This gives it a much broader software target compared to older mobile-first GPU designs. Imagination also offers E-Series GPU IP, which includes DirectX 12 Feature Level 11_0 support. This suggests that we might see more DirectX 12 enablement once most of the DirectX 11 functionality is complete.”


View: https://youtu.be/YRRGofPNBxw
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Additional interpretation,

“Imagination Tech working on mainstream PC gaming with ‘ambitious graphics card and SoC design companies’ — shows off progress with DirectX 11 workloads​


Demo DX11 video is just the start of this graphics chip maker's freshly inked long term roadmap embracing PCs.



PowerVR - Fire Strike DX11 demo“

The UK’s Imagination Technologies (IMG) is teasing its roadmap to “bring high‑performance, scalable, PowerVR graphics to desktop, workstation, and cloud environments.” We’ve seen and heard of a few false starts from IMG since the start of the 2020s, but this is the firm’s clearest messaging yet, with videos showcasing its work with Microsoft's DirectX, and stating that this work is “essential for mainstream PC gaming.”“

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...-shows-off-progress-with-directx-11-workloads
 
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