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ARM: Mobile Graphics Will Surpass PlayStation 4, Xbox One In 2017 (venturebeat.com)

Posted by timothy on from the rooting-from-the-sidelines dept.

AmiMoJo writes with a report from Venturebeat on the state (and predicted future) of mobile-device graphics: ARM, the technology design company responsible for the popular ARM CPU architecture, is preparing for another big leap in computational power for smartphones and tablets. ARM ecosystem director Nizar Romdan explained that the chips that his company creates with partners like Nvidia, Samsung, and Texas Instruments will generate visuals on par with and then surpass what you get from the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles by the end of 2017. PS4 can compute around 1.84 TFLOPS (tera FLOPS), with mobile chips approaching 2 TFLOPS by the last quarter of 2017. Romdan points out that virtual reality eliminates that form factor difference. Wearing a headset on your face is the same if you're tethered to a PC or using a phone.

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  1. Yeah, whatever ARM by CajunArson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I like how they subtly segue from "BETTER THAN CONSOLEZ!!" to VR in such a sneaky markety way.

    Considering that there is literally no way that these ARM parts are going to beat a GT4+ Skylake's GPU -- and that the GT4+ Skylake's GPU is going to be trashed as being completely worthless for VR -- I'm not holding my breath.

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    1. Re:Yeah, whatever ARM by sinij · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Are you really trying to justify using obsolete hardware by claiming that standardization and wide adoption is better than, you know, actual performance?

      Using car analogy, you are saying out that using old Civic is better than Ferrari, because not everybody could handle driving a Ferrari? Well, I know which one I would rather drive.

    2. Re:Yeah, whatever ARM by bytestorm · · Score: 4, Insightful

      [..]constantly updated, but also a limited number of hardware variants and software configurations.[..]

      Are we talking about the same Android? You seem to have enumerated where android is the weakest; poor vendor update frequency, many varied hardware platforms, a plethora of vendor or user customized software configurations.

  2. AAA Titles by thegarbz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yep, now all we need is a handful of AAA titles and we're good to go!

    What?

    What do you mean I can't load all 48GB of Titanfall on my 16GB phone?

    I'll just put in this SD.... errrm where's the expansion slot? Guys?

  3. Re:VR makes 25 to 50% of people sick by John_Sauter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...The problem is that we perceive distance by two mechanisms - focus and convergence. Everybody has fixed convergence - nobody has fixed the focusing issue....

    There is a fix for the focusing issue, but it is quite expensive: Holography. You feed each eye with the same light waves that they would have received if they had been looking at the objects being depicted--two virtual images. I suspect this technology is too expensive for today's market, but it is the only good solution to the problem.