Arm takes VR/AR mobile with GPU core

Processor intellectual property licensor Arm Holdings plc (Cambridge, England) has launched Mali G71, its highest performing and most scalable graphics processor unit (GPU) core to date, and its first based on a graphics architecture the company calls Bifrost.

By Peter Clarke, EETimes, May. 30, 2016 – 

The core is intended to enable demanding graphics use cases such as virtual reality and augmented reality and 4K displays on 2017 mobile equipment by providing a 50 percent performance improvement over the company's current leading GPU, the T880. But it is also expected to find deployment in large-screen devices such as 4K TVs. The core has been launched alongside the Cortex-A73, formerly known as Artemis, as a premium suite of cores for next generation smartphones.

The graphics performance and efficiency uplift is enabled by adoption of the Bifrost architecture - following on from the Utgard and the Midgard architectures that have been behind all of Arm's Mali GPUs to date (see Arm's Bifrost steps up graphics, bridges to machine learning).

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