PowerVR Series 7 GPUs announced

[asendra]

http://www.imgtec.com/news/detail.asp?ID=933

· Highly efficient Series7 architecture scales from 20+ GFLOPS to near 1.5 TFLOPS

· Series7XT GPUs offer up to 512 cores for next-generation servers and 3D gaming consoles

· Series7XE GPUs range from 16 to 32 cores with a high degree of configurability

· Support for hardware virtualization and multi-domain security across the lineup

· Full Android Extension Pack (AEP) features including hardware tessellation for maximum performance under Android 5.0 ‘Lollipop’; plus DirectX 11 and OpenCL FP64 feature packs

Interesting:

Significant architectural performance improvements

Series7XT and Series7XE GPUs achieve up to a 60% architectural performance increase on the latest industry standard benchmarks compared to equivalent configurations of previous generation PowerVR Series6XT/6XE GPUs,

Most notably, this are the GPUs found in Apple iphones and ipads, and also in some Intel atom devices.

60% jump is quite a lot, I though we would be slowing down by now the breaknecking pace of the last few years.