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QrafTee · November 5th, 2009, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by tpriddy

I had a typo in there under the droid column. Can you double-check your info and give me a link to your iPhone/S5PC100 spec and the comparitive info with the SGX 530?Further up in this thread I quoted an article about using the SD for swap under Android with good performance results. What mechanism does ReadyBoost use for performance improvement?

Series5 (SGX)

PowerVR SGX (pixel, vertex, and geometry shader hardware)
- next generation fully programmable universal scalable shader architecture
- exceeding requirements of OpenGL 2.0 and up to DirectX 10.1 Shader Model 4.1
- licensed to Apple Inc, Sony, Intel, Renesas, NEC, TI, MediaTek, NXP Semiconductors, Samsung, Sigma Designs, SigmaTel, SiRF and others
- 8 variants announced:
  - SGX510 (discontinued)
  - SGX520 (7 MPolys/s, 250Mpx/s) for the handheld mobile market
  - SGX530/1 (14 MPolys/s) for the handheld mobile market
  - SGX535 and SGX540 (28 MPolys/s) for handheld high end mobile, portable, MID, UMPC, consumer, and automotive devices
  - SGX540 (1000M pix/s, 20-35M Polys/s), SGX545, SGX555

It's on Wikipedia and the PowerVR developer's page which... doesn't work right now.

As for ReadyBoost, it's a feature found on Windows Vista/7 which allows one to allocate some space on a high-speed USB Flash Drive to act as extra memory for performance boosts. I'm fairly sure it's just for Windows, but I don't know if there is an equivalent on other platforms or whether microSD cards are fast enough to allow that to even be possible on a handheld device.