TinyGPU v3.0 is coming with a programmable Pixel Shader!! Tested on FPGA and submitted to the #TinyTapeout May shuttle (~290k transistors). This Chameleon demo is a tribute to the #GeForce 3, the first programmable GPU released 25 years ago. https://t.co/GCy7tmGfUA pic.twitter.com/ijr0DGzuR9 April 22, 2026
One of the earliest TinyGPU v3 demos featured a chameleon to pay tribute to the Nvidia GeForce 3 , reputed to be the first programmable shader GPU for consumers. That milestone was achieved in a PC graphics card that launched a quarter of a century ago (Feb 2001).
The latest information about TinyGPU v3 mentions that the finished ASIC should be delivered in December 2026 or January 2027.
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SirStephenH This serves no purpose, desktop and mobile iGPUs would blow this out of the water. Reply
Eximo No desktop purpose sure, but you can probably find a use case for a really tiny GPU in some IOT or toy. Might be cheaper than licensing a mobile SoC in the end. Reply
rluker5 A Bay Trail Atom igpu from 2014 with 32 shaders, 4 TMUs and 1 ROP is enough to play HL2 at 1080p and 2w sdp (including the CPU). Probably has millions of transistors though. Reply
usertests rluker5 said: A Bay Trail Atom igpu from 2014 with 32 shaders, 4 TMUs and 1 ROP is enough to play HL2 at 1080p and 2w sdp (including the CPU). Probably has millions of transistors though. I wanted to verify that. Seems more or less right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvermont#Tablet_processors_(Bay_Trail-T)https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/80272/intel-atom-processor-z3735d-2m-cache-up-to-1-83-ghz/specifications.htmlhttps://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/hd-graphics-32eu-mobile.c2469 CKkcMSwA2aw It would be nice to see more tablet-class x86 APUs using modern nodes, but letting them use more energy is better for most, and you could constrain them manually. Even Strix Halo has been put into a tablet. Reply
alan.campbell99 Shoehorn it into some sort of LEGO kit perhaps? Reply
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