Tag: iphone 3gs graphics

📅 June 14, 2009

PowerVR SGX Graphics Chip Video Demo

A video demo of the PowerVR SGX Graphics Chip thats inside the new iPhone 3Gs

If you saw the previous article ( iPhone 3Gs Graphics: You Will Be Shocked ) on FSMdotCOM, you know that one of the most impressive hardware improvements in the iPhone 3Gs compared to the previous generations is the impressively powerful graphics unit, the PowerVR SGX. MICHAELSD has spotted a demo video showing the kinds of thing the new chip is capable of (after the break).The demo is being run on a Pandora devboard (a pre-production model of the Pandora game console) running a PowerVR SGX chip.

📅 June 12, 2009

iPhone 3Gs Graphics: You Will Be Shocked

The new iPhone CPU is getting a lot of buzz, and for sure, it will make the iPhone 3GS more responsive than its predecessors, but I think that most users will be “shocked” to see how powerful the iPhone 3GS is for 3D graphics. Obviously, you have seen the specifications: we’re going from a fixed-pipeline graphics architecture to an Open GL 2.0 ES one. But put in simple terms, it’s like going from Half Life to Half Life 2.

None of the game demos shown at the WWDC keynote has scratched the surface of what can be done by the iPhone 3GS. We expect (hope that?) the new Doom Resurrection game to come in two versions, one for the iPhone 3GS and another for older iPhones/iPod Touch… let’s wait and see.

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