The company adds that the new Adreno 530 GPU will feature improved EcoPix and TruPalette support for longer battery life and superior pixel quality.Ĭommenting on the announcement, Tim Leland, vice president, product management, Qualcomm Technologies said, "We're significantly enhancing the visual processing capabilities of Snapdragon to support next-generation user experiences related to computational photography, computer vision, virtual reality and photo-realistic graphics on mobile devices, all while maximizing battery life.
2020 ultra-high definition (UHD) displays and TVs. It will support up to 4K HEVC videos at 60fps via HDMI 2.0 to Rec. The new high-end GPU will support 64-bit virtual addressing and will also feature improved fine-grain power management, apart from new rendering, compositing, and compression techniques.
It will support OpenGL ES 3.1+AEP (Adreno Extension Pack), Renderscript, and the new OpenCL 2.0 and Vulkan standards. The Adreno 530 will offer up to 40 percent reduced power consumption and 40 percent faster performance for both graphics and GPGPU compute when compared to previous generation, Adreno 430. The successors to the Qualcomm's Adreno 4xx family, the Adreno 5xx family comes with several improvements. The company touts that the new Adreno 5xx GPU architecture delivers improved speed and efficiency over the older generation GPUs.
Qualcomm says the Spectra ISP unit also supports 14-bit sensors for a wider range of colours and more natural skin tones. The chipset maker also clarified that the high-end Snapdragon 820 chipset will debut with the new Qualcomm Spectra image signal processing (ISP) unit which is said to be designed to support superior DSLR-quality photography and enhanced computer vision. The Snapdragon 820-based devices featuring Adreno 530 are expected to be available in the first half of 2016. The new GPUs will be available within the forthcoming Snapdragon 820 and Snapdragon 620/618 processors. The first two GPUs to be available under the new architecture are the Adreno 530 and Adreno 510. Qualcomm, soon after announcing the low-end Snapdragon 212 and Snapdragon 412 processors, has now announced its next-generation graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture dubbed Adreno 5xx alongside a new Qualcomm Spectra image signal processing (ISP) unit.