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not meaning to diss anand, but benchmarking those gpu's the way it was done in the article - ie. through ES 1.1 benchmarks and legacy software, is like benchmarking cpus by running a foreign architecture bogomips test on an emulator running on each of those cpus. it's more a benchmarks of the...

there are thousands of android devices out there. how does being the thousand-and-first give you any advantages? craig, i think you've got a niche there, so try to build up on that. don't spread yourselves thin over me-too concepts. of course, if you could miraculously get android on the...

yep. in those titles ALU fragment work constites mainly of 'texture combiner' -type of ops - a few lowp vector muls and adds, doing essentially modulation and blending. the rest is all texturing. agreed. that was more or less what i meant with my original remark. i don't know either. i really...

FWIW, i feel the same way during many of those late nights when i sit to do some coding on my pet projects, after a long day of tiring work, and piling sleep deprivaton. the plus side of that is that most code written under such conditions tends to be less fancy and more robust ; ) .. well...

well, i was not talking about per-pixel lighting. when i said 'current handheld games', i assumed the average title found on apple's app store, etc. did you mean actually per-pixel lighting when you originally mentioned the vertex/fragment ALU disparity? if so, you might be getting dangerously...

normal games on tiny screens is what the handheld market is constantly being promised by the industry - you can't neglect that if you're striving for a piece of that market. so, back to said normal games: there are entire classes of effects/algorithms where you can't reuse your vertex work (I...

current handheld games are hardly an indicator of 'normal games' workloads. how many of those current handheld games have any depth-only/stencil-only passes, say for dynamic shadow casting (where the shadow entities generation is purely vertex work)? how many of those do multi-pass (rather...

it does. stencil is mandatory to the standard, its availability is only a matter of context configs. just like the SGX, z430 has packed depth+stencil. as regarding the number of ROPs, more of those is all nice until you become ALU-starved. lowp hardly cuts it for anything beyond color blending...

frankly, i don't know where all this '530 is better than the z430' comes from.

quote for wisdom.

Just a heads-up: the GL ES2 version of NTSH-JASS is officially available now. As it was developed on another embedded platform, the pandora build options are largely missing. Luckily, that other platform was a modern linux@ARMv7, so codebase is proven good on A8 and recent linux kernels, in case...

lovely. may i suggest that the henchman currently holding the little sister (correct?) on that fishing pole, actually held the end of a rope going over a gallows pole leaning over the edge of the roof, with the little sister tied head-down on the other end of the rope (a pack of ragin...

some preliminary tegra250 results (big thanks to Dawgmatix for building and running the test on the kit): result from complex shader at 512^2 output res: ~6fps with a big disclaimer, though (thus the preliminary nature of these results): these are some darn early ES2 drivers on the tegra2...

openmax? http://felipec.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/gst-openmax-demo-on-the-beagleboard/

looks like some kid thought it'd be oh-so-cool to skew the numbers in the italian page. /fundamental problem with wikipedia the english page is correct ; )

curious numbers. any sources for those?

erm, there are more than a few european countries on that list.. i mean, the Vatican is in there, for Peter's sake!

as promised, some results from other platforms. here comes the ipad (os 3.2): test was run on the complex shader alone, and there it yields: at 256^2 - fps is 44. at 512^2 - fps is 11.4. as one can notice - almost ideal scaling with resolution. which means the test is absolutely...

see, that right there is my idea of a personal computer these days. i still wish pandora had a bit more modern video out (not necessarily digital either - VGA would've been ok), but since making the LVDS switchable between internal and external displays would have likely made the design...

well, OP did say 'with the right equipment', didn't he ; ) as a curiosity, i've heard of some ungodly machines used by silicon vendors (particularly AMD, but i'm sure all big fish have such) to literally patch a die post-production. to save time from re-spins of pre-production silicon, etc...