The Mali-G71 GPU is the latest and most powerful processor product of ARM. Based on the new architecture Bifrost, the GPU has a very powerful mobile graphics processing capability. Today, with such fierce competition for mobile GPU, Mali-G71's excellent performance is in the leading position in the industry, bringing the mobile GPU to a higher level.

During development, Mali-G71 has considered the requirements of future high-end mobile phones for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and 3D games, and supports more advanced APIs, such as Vulkan and OpenCL 2.0. In recent years, the performance of the mobile GPU has been greatly enhanced, and the requirements for functions of games have become increasingly high. Mali-G71 is intended to raise the mobile graphics processor to a new height, ensure that it has more powerful graphics processing performance than any previous device, and make up for the shortcomings of the mobile device in the past. The new Mali-G71 GPU's graphics processing equipment has even reached the level of some mid-range laptops.

Bifrost architecture

The new MaliBifrost architecture uses a large number of innovations and new technologies, representing the future of mobile graphics processors. The architecture uses the Claused Shaders technology to redesign the execution unit, allowing temporary calculation results to bypass registers, which reduces the file storage pressure of registers, thus greatly reducing power consumption. At the same time, it can effectively reduce the core area after simplifying the control logic of the execution unit.

Another innovation of Bifrost is the Quad based vectorization technology, which allows four threads to be executed together and share control logic, which can improve the utilization of execution units and achieve nearly 100% utilization.

Expandability

The previous generation of mobile graphics processors can reach a maximum of 16 cores. In order to ensure the growing demand for graphics performance of mobile devices, the new Mali-G71 provides the expandability of 1-32 cores, doubling the number of GPU cores. Compared with the previous generation of products, it can have more excellent graphics processing capabilities. This series can be applied to smart phones, digital TV devices and high-end VR devices. The new GPU combination mode is very flexible, and the performance of transistors per unit area has been improved by 40%. Our partners can freely combine according to the performance needs of products to achieve a perfect balance between performance, power consumption and cost, so that their products can perfectly target their target markets.

High end games

Mobile games have developed rapidly in the past two years, and mobile game players are becoming ubiquitous. The consumption growth of mobile game market in 2017 will exceed the total consumption of mobile games in the United States in 2016, reaching 40 billion dollars. In the past few years, the performance requirements of mobile games for hardware have greatly improved. If application/game manufacturers can improve the speed of application adaptation to hardware, then the 32 core GPU can quickly become a necessary configuration for high-end mobile devices. The energy efficiency of Mali-G71 is 20% higher than that of Mali-T880. In the limited heat dissipation capacity, Mali-G71 can maintain longer high-frequency operation time and has better stability.

API: Vulkan and OpenCL 2.0

We have always attached great importance to the improvement of the API. The quality of the API determines how developers interact with the underlying hardware. As a company producing GPUs and CPUs at the same time, we need to meet the needs of developers, which is the key factor determining whether users can get the best use experience. In recent years, we have been working hard to enable developers to access the underlying hardware, which has led to the emergence of the new API interface Vulkan 1.0. Similarly, OpenCL 2.0 has a high prospect from the beginning of development and is more friendly to heterogeneous computing developers. We hope that the new API interface can inspire developers and use some very innovative ways of use. Mali-G71 not only supports Vulkan 1.0 and OpenCL 2.0 interfaces, but also supports shared virtual memory and Fine Grained buffers. Through comprehensive hardware upgrades, the consistency of experience can be improved. At the same time, the improvement of API can greatly simplify software development.

Virtual Reality (VR)

VR is now the most popular project. All manufacturers are considering how to provide users with the best VR experience. Mali-G71 is the product of this challenge. The super high performance requirements of VR mean that the GPU of high-end mobile devices need to have more powerful and efficient performance than ever before. At the same time, other components of mobile devices, such as cameras and screen resolutions, are constantly improving and improving, and have higher execution efficiency than ever before. These are conducive to reducing the thermal power consumption of components. Therefore, GPU has more idle performance for applications that need a lot of graphics computing, so as to reduce power consumption as much as possible.

Content protection

As we use mobile phones more and more, many people do not even need a home computer or laptop. Now we can almost complete all the content that needs to be processed on mobile phones, including downloading, viewing documents, and sharing them to other devices. The newly released Mali-DP650 display processor has the ability to process 4K video. Mali-G71 allows these high-quality content to be seamlessly transmitted to your TV without losing picture quality. This means that when we watch 4K videos, we will not affect the normal use of the phone, and we do not need to miss any good moments.

Mali-G71 is designed and optimized as a part of the complete system. CCI-550 is used to provide better support for CPU and GPU systems and optimize the consistency of heterogeneous computing. The Mali-G71 minimizes the design power to improve the performance of graphics processors with the same core area. The first devices using Mali-G71 are expected to be launched in early 2017, which will take mobile graphics processing and mobile games to a new height.