November 5th, 2009, 01:35 PM
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PowerVR spec / performance boost by swapping on microSD
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Originally Posted by QrafTee
Series5 (SGX)
* 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
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Good info. I've found though, that the 3Gs has the Samsung S5PC100 and that the S5PC100 has the PowerVR MBX-Lite. It is a lower power consumption variant of the SGX.
update: I see in Wikipedia that the 3GS has an SGX. I'll update the chart and do some more searching. I'm looking for the specific SOC in the 3GS and its GPU model.
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Originally Posted by QrafTee
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.
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I expect it's used as fast swap space. So yes, you may put swap space on the microSD and it will improve performance (according to above quoted posting.) We'll only know for sure once we test it on the Droid though.
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Last edited by tpriddy; November 5th, 2009 at 05:22 PM.
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