IMG CXT
RAYS YOUR GAME
Ray tracing – now available on mobile
IMG CXT introduces the revolutionary PowerVR Photon architecture, bringing high-performance, desktop-quality ray traced visuals to the palm of your hand. Delivering up to 1.3GRay/s, CXT-powered devices will bring several key features. This includes ray traced shadows, reflections, global illumination, and ambient occlusion with high frame rates to users on the go.
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Ray tracing performance per core
50%
More geometry and compute capability
1.5TFLOPS
FP32 performance per core
IMG CXT Applications
Mobile
Data Centre
Automotive
The PowerVR Photon architecture
Imagination’s Photon architecture represents a decade of development in making ray tracing not just viable, but rapid, in low-power embedded devices such as smartphones. Ray tracing can be done with varying levels of performance and efficiency. Due to this, we established the Ray Tracing Levels System (RTLS), ranging from Level 0 to Level 5.
The PowerVR Photon architecture represents the first Level 4 ray tracing solution. This is thanks to a new GPU block called the Ray Acceleration Cluster (RAC). Which enhances ray tracing performance and efficiency to deliver a desktop-quality ray traced experience for mobile gamers and developers.
Why ray tracing matters
Ray tracing is a game-changing 3D graphics technology that imitates how light behaves in the real world. This makes it possible to create 3D scenes that are near indistinguishable from real life. It has proven to be a compelling technology in high-end desktop gaming. By enabling more realistic lighting and shadows, bringing photorealism in games a step closer.
Hard-edged rasterised shadows can be replaced with beautiful and realistic ray traced soft shadows, that appreciably add to the realism of scenes. Surfaces can offer realistic reflections depending on their material. The shadows or reflections of enemies in a game can be seen before they arrive on screen.
As a Level 4 RTLS solution Imagination is bringing those same effects to mobile and embedded-device developers. Delivering a desktop-quality gaming experience on your phone, with low power for extended playtime and excellent thermals.
Imagination Technologies’ IMG CXT IP has been named the Best Processor IP in Linley Group’s 2021 Analysts’ Choice Awards.
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“The CXT RT3 is the first licensable GPU to enable real-time hardware-accelerated ray tracing in a smartphone power budget. The innovative architecture will bring mobile gamers the realism that until now required an expensive console or PC-graphics card.”
Senior Analyst
A tour-de-force of performance
Ray tracing is a new technology. Which means for all those games available today that don’t yet support it, CXT is still the ultimate power-efficient GPU IP to use. It is a tour-de-force of rasterised graphics performance. With 50% more compute capability than currently shipping tile-based deferred rendering (TBDR)-derived GPUs in the mobile market, 50% more geometry performance and a low-power superscalar architecture. Which delivers high-performance at low clock frequencies for exceptional FPS/W.
IMG CXT also features market-leading low bandwidth, combining our TBDR architecture with an advanced configurable cache infrastructure and our Imagination Image Compression (IMGIC) technology. CXT comprehensively reduces DRAM bandwidth requirements for low-power operation in mobile handsets.
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What is IMG CXT?
IMG CXT is our new flagship GPU IP. IMG CXT introduces the revolutionary PowerVR Photon architecture, bringing high-performance, desktop-quality ray traced visuals to the palm of your hand. Delivering up to 1.3GRay/s, CXT-powered devices will bring several key features. This includes ray traced shadows, reflections, global illumination, and ambient occlusion with high frame rates to users on the go.
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IMG CXT是我们新的旗舰GPU IP。除了传统光栅化的出色性能外，IMG CXT还引入了革命 性的PowerVR Photon架构，将高性能、桌面级质量的光线追踪视觉效果带到您的掌中设备 上。由CXT驱动的设备可提供高达1.3GRay/s 性能，为用户带来光线追踪阴影、反射、全局 照明和环境光遮蔽等功能，并实现高帧率。
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