We are eagerly awaiting the next generation CPU and GPU architecture for mobile devices and now a new chips is on display at SIGGRAPH. Samsung Exynos 5250 delivers the least to say impressive graphics in a tablet, with dual Cortex-A15 cores and a quad-core Mali-T604.

There has been talk of the next generation performance circuits for our tablets and smartphones for some time. During SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques) plenty of big names in the graphics industry was present; including ARM that displayed a new system processor sporting two ARM Cortex-A15 cores and quad-core ARM Mali-T604 graphics.

ARM representatives was first quiet regarding the clock frequencies and manufacturing node, since it would confirm who made the system processor. Engadget reports that it was later confirmed that it was Samsung Exynos 5 being demonstrated. It is most likely none other than Exynos 5250 that will be capable of powering screens at 2560 x 1600 pixels.

Exynos 5 will be clocked up to 1.7 GHz on the Cortex-A15 cores and be made with Samsung’s own 32 nanometer technology. The graphics processor is a quad-core Mali-T604 that is expected to outperform all system processors on the market today, including Apple A5X with its quad-core PowerVR SGX543MP4 GPU. Exynos 5250 will also get a bandwidth of up to 12.8 GB/s, which indicates a 64-bit memory bus and DDR3 memory at 1600 MHz.

The video shows how the new graphics can render impressive graphical details, shadows and lighting in realtime together with the APIs OpenGL ES 3.0 and OpenCL. Mali-T604 can also render DirectX 11, which means it is likely we will see Exynos 5250 in future Windows RT units. ARM is working with its manufacturing partners to license Mali-T604 and Cortex-A15 to retail already in Q3 – which means we should see an official announcement by the end of September. Could it be Samsung’s coming tablet code-named P10?

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