Earlier on, Adreno was known as Imageon when it was first developed by ATI Technologies (which later got acquired by AMD). The Adreno GPUs are designed by Qualcomm and are used in their Snapdragon Processor lineup. You can read more about ARM’s Mali GPU on its official website. This is one of the reasons why the GPU Performance of Exynos, Kirin and MediaTek chips is lagging behind when compared to Qualcomm Snapdragon and Apple A-Series. And the same also reflects in our rankings. Though architecture plays the biggest role in their performance, the number of cores and frequency also does affect the performance.Īs of 2018, the latest Mali GPUs are quite behind the Adreno and Apple GPUs in terms of performance.

For example, the “Mali-T880 MP12” has 12 cores. The number behind Mali Chip represents the number of processing units or cores.

They often implement various variants of the GPU which might have different cores and frequency. These companies incorporate the Mali Architecture and implement it in their SOC. Just like their CPU Architecture, ARM Holdings also licenses the Mali GPU architecture to various chip manufacturers like Huawei HiSilicon, MediaTek, and Samsung. The Mali GPUs can be seen on MediaTek, HiSilicon Kirin, and Exynos SOCs while the Adreno GPUs are designed by Qualcomm for Snapdragon Processors. Here’s a brief description of the various GPU Brands that you see in the smartphone market. The performance difference is generally a lot more than the difference in scores. A GPU with a score of 115 is not 15% faster than the GPU with a score of 100. Our score does not increase linearly with performance improvement. Here are the Top 35 GPUs represented graphically. Just like the GPUs, you can also check out the ranking of Mobile SOCs here. We will update them with actual scores after we complete the testing. * The scores marked with a star (*) are only estimated based on the specification & the performance gain we are expecting based on the architectural improvements, GPU Cores, and clock speeds.

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