Jan 05
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon, NVIDIA’s Tegra and TI’s OMAP4 have a new competitor in the mobile processor world: Marvell’s ARMADA 610, which features a gigahertz CPU, 1080p video encoding and decoding, and unusually fast integrated 3D acceleration. The ARMADA 610 was initially announced last October, but it’s seeing its first demos – and its first details – at CES this week.
Like their competitors, Marvell makes CPUs compatible with the ARM instruction set. But Marvell is an ARM architecture licensee rather than a processor licensee, which means they have more freedom to alter the processor’s structure than TI and NVIDIA do.
The ARMADA 600 series runs the same ARMv7 instructions as ARM’s Cortex-A8 processors, but with a shorter pipeline which may allow for faster execution, according to AnandTech.
According to a Marvell press release, the ARMADA 610 can render 45 million 3D triangles per second and control four displays at 2k x 2k pixel resolution each. That makes it more powerful than the PowerVR SGX 530 core used in the Motorola Droid and the Qualcomm graphics core in the QSD8250 Snapdragon, which handle 14m and 22m triangles respectively.
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