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So if I told you that you really didn't need that new GeForce 7800, or an ATI X850XT to play the latest games on your desktop PC you would say...
And I said you didn't need any add on card at all to get top notch video performance you would say...
Mali200.
No, wait. That wasn't what you were going to say. You were going to call me crazy with some expletives to boot! However, as I am of the forgiving type, I forgive you.
So as I was saying, Mali200.
A Norwegian based company by the name of Falanx is proposing integrated 3D graphics to rival add-on cards.
Huh?
In a nut shell (from the Falanx site):
"The Mali200 feature set offers rich 3D graphics that go beyond Shader Model 3.0, along with advanced DSP and general multimedia acceleration via OpenGL ES, OpenVG and DirectX9 among other APIs. This quality and versatility is achieved with a low gate count, which, when combined with power-saving features and the lowest memory bandwidth usage, results in a elegant low-power graphics architecture. Like the rest of the family of Mali IP cores, the Mali200 is a patent-pending single-pipeline 2D/3D/Video IP rasterizer core that delivers 30fps video recording and playback. Mali IP cores offer the industry's only advanced 16X Full Scene Anti-Aliasing (FSAA) for mobile devices, along with smart texture filtering and compressions techniques for increased bandwidth savings and the ultimate in visual quality."
Wait! There is more!
"The Mali200 employs a combination of tile-based and immediate mode rendering for efficient bandwidth usage, which results in several competitive advantages over using a single approach. For instance, the Mali200 eliminates up to 80 percent of the per pixel bandwidth usage of immediate mode renderers. Additionally, data locality provides optimized memory access patterns ensuring higher performance in high-latency systems.
Compared to a traditional tile-based renderer, the Mali200 IP core offers significantly lower bandwidth/vertex, while its Falanx proprietary FLXTCT Texture Compression method lowers per-pixel bandwidth as well. Falanx' proprietary tiling technique provides bandwidth/vertex similar to an immediate mode render architecture."
I encourage you to read more at their site.
Samples of the Mali200 cores will be available in November 2005.
The only downside to all this pretty exciting news is that it might never reach the market...their words, not mine.
*Sigh*
Hard|OCP resumes it nicely and has an official Mali200 presentation from Falanx to wet your appetite even more.
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
And I said you didn't need any add on card at all to get top notch video performance you would say...
Mali200.
No, wait. That wasn't what you were going to say. You were going to call me crazy with some expletives to boot! However, as I am of the forgiving type, I forgive you.
So as I was saying, Mali200.
A Norwegian based company by the name of Falanx is proposing integrated 3D graphics to rival add-on cards.
Huh?
In a nut shell (from the Falanx site):
"The Mali200 feature set offers rich 3D graphics that go beyond Shader Model 3.0, along with advanced DSP and general multimedia acceleration via OpenGL ES, OpenVG and DirectX9 among other APIs. This quality and versatility is achieved with a low gate count, which, when combined with power-saving features and the lowest memory bandwidth usage, results in a elegant low-power graphics architecture. Like the rest of the family of Mali IP cores, the Mali200 is a patent-pending single-pipeline 2D/3D/Video IP rasterizer core that delivers 30fps video recording and playback. Mali IP cores offer the industry's only advanced 16X Full Scene Anti-Aliasing (FSAA) for mobile devices, along with smart texture filtering and compressions techniques for increased bandwidth savings and the ultimate in visual quality."
Wait! There is more!
"The Mali200 employs a combination of tile-based and immediate mode rendering for efficient bandwidth usage, which results in several competitive advantages over using a single approach. For instance, the Mali200 eliminates up to 80 percent of the per pixel bandwidth usage of immediate mode renderers. Additionally, data locality provides optimized memory access patterns ensuring higher performance in high-latency systems.
Compared to a traditional tile-based renderer, the Mali200 IP core offers significantly lower bandwidth/vertex, while its Falanx proprietary FLXTCT Texture Compression method lowers per-pixel bandwidth as well. Falanx' proprietary tiling technique provides bandwidth/vertex similar to an immediate mode render architecture."
I encourage you to read more at their site.
Samples of the Mali200 cores will be available in November 2005.
The only downside to all this pretty exciting news is that it might never reach the market...their words, not mine.
*Sigh*
Hard|OCP resumes it nicely and has an official Mali200 presentation from Falanx to wet your appetite even more.
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
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