Chris Longstaff, senior director of product and technology marketing, pictured,said: “The GT8525 is the first of a range of Series8XT GPUs designed around our highly efficient and scalable Furian architecture. This IP core delivers on the market requirements for a number of high-volume applications. It continues and strengthens the performance/mW leadership position of the PowerVR XT family, whilst supporting a rich set of features.”
Compared to the Series7XT GT7200 GPU, the twin cluster GT8525 offers an improvement of more than 50frame/s on the Manhattan benchmark and a similar improvement in the Antutu benchmark. It also doubles the pixel/clock throughput, leading to higher resolution graphics.
The Furian architecture, announced in March, features a 32-wide ALU cluster design for better performance density and efficiency. A new instruction set architecture in the primary and secondary ALU pipelines enables improves resource use and efficiency, with multithreading optimisations bringing flexible access to on-chip memory.