by Robert Triggs, 3 months ago

The next generation processor war is definitely on, we’ve already had a look at the promising big.LITTLE A53/A57 combination, and now its Qualcomm’s turn to hint at what it has up its sleeve for the…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

It seems Vivante may have just beaten Samsung to the punch in terms of releasing a mobile GPU that has support for the latest GPU specifications like OpenGL ES 3.0 and OpenCL 1.1. Vivante’s GPUs…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

Samsung has just released the whitepaper for their long-awaited Exynos 5250 SoC, now called the Exynos 5 Dual, and there’s a lot of interesting information to be discovered in it. The Exynos 5 Dual will…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

When the Crysis FPS game came out on the PC in 2007, it pushed the boundaries of what gaming graphics should look like. The “Can it run Crysis?” catchphrase became an Internet meme, a question…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

The OpenGL ES 2.0 specification has been finalized since 2007, but we didn’t get to use it in smartphones until 2009, when the iPhone and Android phones started supporting it in hardware. It still feels…

by Lucian Armasu, 9 months ago

The GLBenchmark is now the standard benchmarking tool to compare mobile GPUs. We’re going to see a GLBenchmark 3.0 this fall with all the necessary tests for the new OpenGL ES 3.0 standard, but until…

by Lucian Armasu, 10 months ago

OpenGL ES 2.0 is a lighter version of the desktop OpenGL 2.0 (which is quite old), and stripped of the features that would consume too much power. It then attempts to maintain the perfect balance…