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Imagination advertises 2.3 TFLOPS and 72 GTexel/s per core, along with a reported 2.25x uplift in per-core performance over its BXT family. Its multicore layout is intended to scale into higher-end products aimed at PCs, workstations, and cloud-gaming deployments.
While the company did not publish specifications for the GPU card and did not assign a model name in its announcement, it emphasized that the design is already in mass production. The ability to run complex 3D visualization workloads smoothly formed the core of its demonstration.
Imagination’s public documentation describes DXD as a raster-first architecture, while the closely related DXT mobile IP integrates hardware ray tracing. Xiang Di Xian highlighted ray tracing in its written announcement, but the company has not yet clarified whether it is using a customized configuration of DXD, integrating additional blocks, or adopting an extended version of the IP tailored for its market.
Although the announcement did not provide numerical performance data beyond the “more than double” claim, the focus on digital-twin workloads and 3D simulation aligns with Imagination’s own positioning. DXD includes virtualization features such as the HyperLane multi-context system, which allows multiple isolated workloads to run on a single GPU.
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