MALI-G78 CATCHES UP TO APPLE GPU: Apple's GPU-Performance Increases Decelerate

摘要

Apple's new A14 GPU is blurring the line between PC and mobile performance, as the company employs similar intellectual property (IP) in its laptops and smartphones. But the design offers less of a performance increase than previous generations, allowing Arm- and custom-GPU-based competitors to regain some lost ground. Current flagship processors integrate the Mali-G78, which enables up to twice the throughput of its predecessor, in part by scaling to as many as 24 cores. In its newest flagship processor, Qualcomm refreshed its Adreno 650 GPU, which debuted in the Snapdragon 865, by making architectural changes to the shader cores and by adding custom accelerators. This combination boosted performance by 35%-not enough to capture the lead from Apple, though. The A14 gained 8%, retaining the throughput lead despite having the smallest GPU, as Figure 1 shows.