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Clock that? New ARM designs point to virtual reality
Needs to keep SoCing it to 'em, frame after frame
Chip design boffins at ARM have unveiled specs for the Brit firm's latest ceepie-geepie offerings.
The new Cortex-A73 CPU architecture promises to save more power, improving power efficiency by 30 per cent compared to the previous Cortex-A72, whilst boosting performance, and crucially, endurance. The new CPU will also be faster, theoretically operating at 1.3 times the peak performance of the '72.
The Mali-G71 GPU is likewise designed to improve the virtual reality experience by supporting 4K resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate, and 4ms graphics pipeline latency.
The Mali-G71 can be built with as many as 32 shader cores, twice as many as prior ARM graphics offerings, providing crisper images.
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