Imagination’s PowerVR was once competing in the PC graphics card market with its Kyro series graphics cards, among others. However, the company soon specialized exclusively in graphics controllers used in mobile circuits.

In recent years, rumors and hints of Imagination’s possible return to more powerful graphics cards, perhaps even the PC market, have circulated on the Internet. Now the company has released a new generation of graphics cards and they really came in a whole new power class, but not in the PC market. Imagination’s new PowerVR IMG B Series includes four different families of graphics controllers: BXT for data centers, BXM for mid-range mobile and TV games, BXE for user interfaces and more basic games, and ISO tailored to the needs of the automotive world 26262 BXS supporting

All B-Series graphics drivers are based on the ability to scale performance with multiple “cores”. What makes this special is that in the BXT and BXM series, each core can act not only in collaboration, but also as completely separate graphics controllers that can also be physically located on different chips. In the BXE series, any additional cores will not be able to operate independently. In the BXT example of Imagination, one chiplet had two cores in the MC2 configuration and the other chip had two cores in the MC1 configurations. The new B-Series graphics controllers are said to be %% more energy efficient than the A-Series when both are run at the optimal power budget set by the company.

Top model of the most efficient BXT series BXT – 32 – 1024 The MC4 is equipped with four SPUs (Shader Processing Unit, “GPU core”), each with four USCs (Unified Shading Cluster). It is capable at its best of 6 TFLOPS FP 32 performance and 24 TOPS artificial intelligence calculation. However, in the case of artificial intelligence figures, it was not specified which precision the integer calculations (INT) were concerned.

All new B-Series graphics drivers also support Imagination’s new IMGIC image compression method. It replaces the PVRIC used by previous models and is said to be not only more versatile and efficient, but also based on a much simpler algorithm. According to the company’s slides, it is able to compress image data % of the original without loss, 50% visually lossless and as much as %% if necessary, but it visibly affects quality. With IMGIC, for example, BXM series graphics drivers require 35% less bandwidth than similar A-series models.

According to Imagination, several parties have already licensed the new architecture. One of these is Innosilicon, which will release PCI Express bus-based graphics cards for cloud servers. They go on sale both in China and