GPU Fenghua di Innosilicon basata su Imagination Technologies GPU Core serie IMG-B
The blog post was titled “Back in the high-performance game” and in it David Harold was reminiscing about his close to 20 years at Imigationation Technologies and how the company had started out in the 3D accelerator business with the Kyro “GPU”. He goes on to mention last year’s IMG A-Series GPU and then moves on to the new IMG-B Series and mentions how it’s the 11th generation of the PowerVR architecture and how it has 70 percent higher compute density compared to existing desktop GPUs. He also mentions that Imagination Technologies has five customers working on products for the desktop, performance laptop and “cloud spaces” based on the PowerVR architecture and then goes on to mention Innosilicon by name and pointing out that they have just launched an IMG-B Series BXT multi-core GPU in an add-in card form-factor.
In other words, the Innosilicon Fenghua GPU looks like it will be one of a handful of new products that we’ll see bring some kind of competition to AMD and Nvidia, but so far we have no idea as to how these products will perform. The IMG-B Series BXT is the highest performance part in the IMG-B Series of GPUs, but so far Imagination Technologies haven’t revealed any information about the BXT SKUs. Hopefully we’ll see something that will be competitive in the mid-range at the very least, especially considering that the PowerVR architecture has had ray tracing support for several years now. Ideally some of the promised products will be for companies selling outside of the PRC and with support for mainstream operating systems, but for now, we’re just going to have to wait and see.