Posted at 6:49 am CDT, July 06th, 2010 by Dustin EarleycloseAuthor Information: Name: Dustin Earley About: A self proclaimed foodie and technology enthusiast, Dustin Earley is never far from his desktop, laptop, or phone. Currently attending college for a degree in digital media production, when Dustin isn't posting in forums and tweeting online he can be found relaxing, playing video games, and cooking for his family. Follow this DroidDog Contributing Editor on Twitter.See Authors Posts (355)
Dustin EarleycloseAuthor Information: Name: Dustin Earley About: A self proclaimed foodie and technology enthusiast, Dustin Earley is never far from his desktop, laptop, or phone. Currently attending college for a degree in digital media production, when Dustin isn't posting in forums and tweeting online he can be found relaxing, playing video games, and cooking for his family. Follow this DroidDog Contributing Editor on Twitter.See Authors Posts (355)
If ya got it, flaunt it. Right? Samsung has made the claim that their Hummingbird processor (the same one found inside the Galaxy S) has 3x GPU power when compared to similar models (AKA Snapdragon). The video you are about to watch most definitely shows just how true that is. On the right, you’ll see the Samsung Galaxy S playing Quake 2. On the left, you’ll see the same game being played on an HTC Desire. SPOILER ALERT: The Galaxy S smokes the Desire. After watching the video, I have to say, I am throughly excited to see the next generation of gaming on Android. This is only the beginning.
I know the GPU in the Hummingbird CPU is better on paper but I wanna see this same demo heads up against the Droid X because we already knew the Adreno GPU was already way behind the curve.
At first this GPU was planned for MSM7x30 series, but Qualcomm changed it's mind and purued development of MSM 8x50A, and MSM 8x55... with the same GPU co-processor.
This new GPU is based on technology that Qualcomm Acquired for $65 million from AMD (when AMD acquired ATI it sold handheald division to Qualcomm and digital TV division to Broadcom)
The new GPU co-processor is wastly more superior to curent Adreno generation inside QSD8x50 (Snapdragon). That means that 2011 generation of HTC's and LG's Gingerbread phones will be much more powerful. Samsung will stick to its Hummingbird (but will move it to 28nm) and Motorola will stick to Texas Instruments's OMAP series (probably moving to 4000 series with dual-core Cortex-A9.
How is the power consumption with all this beastly graphics power? It is mobile after all, not a desktop computer...
Knedjo
Actually key factor is IMGTech's SGX540 GPU that's inside Hummingbird SoC! Inside the Snapdragon SoC is Adreno 200 GPU that's is much inferior to the ImgTech design.
SGX 540 can push 90 Million triangles per sec, on the other hand Adreno 200 can push only 22 Million Triangles per sec.
And also there's a quastion of OpenGL drivers and considering experience of ImgTech in GPU business, compared to Qualcomm, there's no doubt that ImgTech OGL drivers are way more optimized!
One of the key innovations that Qualcomm has promissed for updated Snapdragon (MSM8x50A, and MSM8x55), beside 1.2-1.5GHz frequency is more powerful GPU part - a design that Qualcomm has bought from AMD (ATI)
