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Getting tired of chip designers bragging how their latest and greatest GPUs are stuffed full of transistors and can process a bazillion polygons a second? Well, Imagination has an antidote – the PowerVR G6020, which is aimed at smartwatches and embedded stuff where a slick 2D user interface is preferred over 3D might. The …

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  1. A Non e-mouse Silver badge
    WTF?

    WTF??

    The PowerVR G6020, which is aimed at smartwatches and embedded stuff where a slick 2D user interface is preferred over 3D might.

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    It's aimed at gear that needs 60 frames-per-second on a 720p display

    How the heck does a watch need a 60 fps 720p display?

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    1. Dave 126 Silver badge
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      Re: WTF??

      A watch probably doesn't, but that doesn't mean that there aren't applications that sit in the region of the graph defined thus: Medium resolution, high frame rate 2D interface, low power consumption.

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    2. theblackhand
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      Re: WTF??

      Re: How the heck does a watch need a 60 fps 720p display?

      Exactly - it should be a 100 fps display to accurately show hundredths of a second.

      Sure they could make displays that show even more fps, but that would just be silly...

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    3. Michael Wojcik Silver badge
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      Re: WTF??

      Indeed. My existing watches do the job very well with 60 refreshes per minute.

      Ah, the march of Tech We Didn't Need continues.

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  2. gizmo23

    Compute performance

    With super-low-power processors like this I wonder what kind of compute peformance you would get with a device made up of say 1024 of these (or any other LP core for that matter). If they're only 2.2mm square then the box would be roughly 250mm x 70mm (CPUs laid out on a grid 64 x 16 about 4mm per processor). I presume there are serious limitations like I/O rather than heat and other engineering considerations otherwise someone would have already done it right?

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  3. recovering grinch

    Power consumption please...

    ...that's what we want to know.

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    1. diodesign (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge
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      Re: Power consumption please...

      We'll never know until it gets into an SoC. It's just a design – it's 12 to 18 months from production.

      C.

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  4. Rimpel

    Euugh

    Just entered 'gumble' into google, the first hit is from urban dictionary. Thanks so much El Reg...

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Euugh

      Its very much 'don't need to know'. At all.

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