{"id":450592,"date":"2022-06-29T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=450592"},"modified":"2022-06-29T09:53:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T07:53:58","slug":"arm-announces-its-first-gpu-with-hardware-based-ray-tracing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/450592-arm-announces-its-first-gpu-with-hardware-based-ray-tracing.html","title":{"rendered":"Arm announces its first graphics processor with hardware ray tracing for smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chip designer Arm has announced<\/a><\/strong> Immortalis-G715, a new flagship graphics processing unit (GPU) and its first to bring hardware-based ray tracing to Android phones and tablets.<\/p>\n

The Immortalis-G715 is built on Arm Mali architecture, and the manufacturer said it provides variable-rate shading, matrix multiply instruction support, and an improved execution engine.<\/p>\n

It was also designed with 10 to 16 cores in mind.<\/p>\n

Last year’s Arm Mali-G710 delivered software-based ray tracing. However, manufacturers, including Samsung, are moving towards hardware-based ray tracing.<\/p>\n

Arm’s director of product management, Andy Craigen, explained<\/a><\/strong> that ray tracing techniques use significant power, energy, and area on a system-on-a-chip.<\/p>\n

“However, ray tracing on Immortalis-G715 only uses 4% of the shader core area, while delivering more than 300% performance improvements through the hardware acceleration,” he said.<\/p>\n

Craigen said Arm had decided to introduce hardware-based ray tracing now, saying its “partners are ready, the hardware is ready, and the developer ecosystem is (about to get) ready”.<\/p>\n

Arm’s senior vice president of its client line of business, Paul Williamson, said Arm believes the technology has a firm place but would take time for mobile game developers to adopt.<\/p>\n

Arm has partnered with MediaTek to launch the Immortalis-G715.<\/p>\n

“Congratulations to Arm on the launch of the new Immortalis GPU, featuring hardware-based ray tracing,” MediaTek’s vice president and general manager for its wireless communications business unit, JC Hsu, said.<\/p>\n

“Combined with the new powerful Cortex-X3 CPU, we look forward to the next level of mobile gaming and productivity for our flagship and premium mobile SOCs.”<\/p>\n

In addition to the Immortalis-G715, Arm announced new products in its Mali line of GPUs, including the Mali-G715 and G615.<\/p>\n

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