The ARM Mali-G71 and Bifrost

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ARM has announced a new mobile GPU, the Mali-G71, based on a whole new GPU architecture called Bifrost. ARM’s mobile GPU products have been through two previous major architectural revisions. First came Utgard, which you find in GPUs like the Mali-400, Mali-470 etc. Utgard supported OpenGl ES 2.0 and was found in devices like the Samsung Galaxy S2. Next came Midgard, a new architecture with support for the unified shader model and OpenGL ES 3.0. Midgard GPUs include the Mali-T604, found in the Nexus 10; the Mali-T760 found in the Samsung Galaxy S6, as well as other devices including some of Acer’s Liquid range; and the Mali-T880, which if found in the Exynos variants of the Samsung Galaxy S7 as well the Huawei Mate 8, the Huawei P9 and so on.

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