ARM Mali-T628 Overview

The ARM® Mali™-T628 GPU offers scalability from one to eight cores – providing up to twice the graphics and GPU Compute performance compared to the Mali-T624 GPU. The Mali-T628 shares key API support with the other products in the Mali-T600 Series – including OpenGL ES 1.1, OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenGL ES 3.0*, OpenCL 1.1 Full Profile and Google Renderscript. Mali-T628 is the GPU of choice for use in the next generation of market-leading devices, optimized to bring breathtaking graphical displays to consumer applications such as 3D graphics, visual computing, augmented reality, procedural texture generation and voice recognition.

Why Mali-T628?

The Mali-T628 delivers high  performance graphics, achieved by doubling the number of GPU cores, within each core and improving the compiler and pipeline efficiency.

The ARM Mali-T628 GPU supports multiple Compute APIs, including Khronos® OpenCL Full Profile and Google Renderscript. It provides native hardware support for 64-bit scalar and vector, integer and floating-point data types - fundamental to accelerate complex and computationally intensive algorithms.

The Job Manager within Mali-T600 Series GPUs offloads task management from the CPU to the GPU and enables seamless load balancing acrossactive shader cores. Concurrent delivery of a common set of compatible drivers for all Midgard architecture-based Mali GPUs enables faster time-to-market and minimizes software upgrade costs for future implementations.

Specifications

The Mali-T628 delivers up to 10x the graphics performance of the Mali-400-MP GPU, as well as an increase in GPU Compute performance when compared with the Mali-T604 GPU.

           

Features	Value	Description
Anti-Aliasing	4xFSAA 16xFSAA	4x Full Scene Anti-Aliasing (FSAA) with minimal performance drop
API Support	OpenGL® ES 1.1, 2.0, 3.0 OpenCL 1.1 Renderscript™	Full support for next-generation and legacy 2D/3D graphics applications
Bus Interface	AMBA®4 ACE-LITE	Compatible with a wide range of bus interconnect and peripheral IP
L2 Cache	Configurable 32kB-256kB	32KB recommended per core
Memory System	Virtual Memory	Built-in Memory Management Unit (MMU) to support virtual memory
Multi-Core Scaling	1 to 8 cores	A single IP covering a range of mid to high-end product requirements and price/performance points
Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression	Low dynamic range (LDR) and high dynamic range (HDR). Supports both 2D and 3D images	ASTC offers a number of advantages over existing texture compression schemes by improving image quality, reducing memory bandwidth and thus energy use.