XDC 2026

This talk will cover the advances that have been made since last XDC, discuss the current state of the PowerVR driver and outline the roadmap for future development.

Imagination at XDC 2026

PowerVR: A Year of Progress presented by Simon Perretta and Frank Binns

Wednesday 30 September, 9:15AM

Over the past year the PowerVR driver has made significant progress, from passing Vulkan 1.2 conformance to enabling OpenGL (ES) support via Zink, Wayland support, Mesa CI integration, improved developer tooling and adding support for additional platforms.

This talk will cover the advances that have been made since last XDC, discuss the current state of the PowerVR driver and outline the roadmap for future development. In addition, it will also cover the ongoing work on the compiler backend (PCO), including some of the challenges and design decisions involved in working with the Rogue ISA.

PowerVR Open-Source Driver

Here at Imagination, we’re giving developers, silicon vendors, and OEMs full control over their graphics software stack.

Through our continuously developed Open Source GPU drivers, we enable our partners and the broader open source community to tailor, extend, and maintain their independent software stacks, as needed for their specific use cases.

These high quality GPU drivers are aligned with the open source standards, and we’re regularly upstreaming conformant code to support additional Imagination GPUs and API variants.

Imagination’s high performance  native Vulkan driver implementation relies on the Mesa framework’s open source compiler technology.

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