While smartphones of today are much more capable gaming machines compared to their predecessors, they are still no match for the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS when it comes to a real complex title, never mind the DS' rather limited graphical processing power. Imagination Technologies aims to offer smartphone users a future gaming option with its initial multi-core, smartphone-class graphics chip in the PowerVR SGX 5XTSeries. Known as the SGX543MP, it comes in at least a dual-core version and can scale up to 16 cores depending on the version. A standards 200MHz, 4-core chip is able to render a peak 133 million polygons per second (4.4 million polygons per frame) while drawing as many as 4 billion pixels per second. Sounds pretty impressive, but all these are just figures on paper so it will take a real world gaming application to see just how near (or far away) the actual figures actually are.
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