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ARM Multimedia Technology Update ARM Mali®-T880 Delivering Stunning

Visual Mobile Experience

ARM Tech Forum, June 2015

Nizar Romdan

Director of Ecosystem

Media Processing Group

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Anything, Anywhere, Anytime

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Multi-casting UHD and

4K video streams

Console-quality gaming

experience

Epic Games using Enlighten Technology from Geomerics, an ARM Company

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69% Mobile video

CAGR

2013-20184

Computer Vision & Image Processing

Expanding Complexity of Content

Sources:

1: AppAnnie report

2: CISCO VNI report

3: Android Developer Dashboards

4: CISCO VNI report

90% of Google Play

revenue is from

mobile games1

Immersive Gaming

53% of mobile data

was video

in 20132

Media Capture and Sharing

73% Of mobile device

resolutions are

HD or more3

User Interfaces

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Complexity of Device Requirements Balancing performance, power and price to address consumer needs

Higher

Performance

Handle more

complex

content and

higher

resolutions

Higher Energy Efficiency

Deliver extra

performance

in same

thermal

budget

Higher

Cost Efficiency

Bring high-

quality,

affordable

technology

to the

mainstream

Faster

Time to Market

Remain

competitive

in a fast-

paced

market

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Battery life

Cost

Slimmer and sleeker

form factors Performance

Thermal design

Features

Capabilities

Delivery Requires Innovation Throughout the SoC and Device

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ARM IP Suite Delivering 2016 Premium Mobile Experiences

Enabling innovation on the most

advanced process nodes

Highest performance

ARM Cortex CPU

Next generation ARM CoreLink

Cache Coherent Interconnect

Premium configurations of Mali video

and display processors Complements ARM big.LITTLE

enhancing energy efficiency

Highest performance and most

energy-efficient ARM Mali GPU

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550M Mali –based GPUs

shipped in 2014 Total

114 licenses

ARM® Mali™ Success

73 licensees

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

2011 2012 2013 2014

Mill

ion u

nits

25 new Mali

licenses

in FY14

Mali is in

75% of DTVs…

…

>50% of Android

tablets…

…

>35% of

smartphones

YTD

On track for

600-700M

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Mali GPU Roadmap

Energy Efficient GPU Roadmap

Mali™-T604 • First OpenGL® ES 3.1

and OpenCL Full Profile

mobile GPU

Mali-T624 • 50% performance uplift

• Full ASTC support

Mali-T628 • Extending scalability to 8

cores

Mali-T760 • Increased SoC energy

efficiency

• Scalability to 16 cores

Mali-T860 & T880 • Energy efficiency and

performance gains

• UI performance uplift

Cost Efficient GPU Roadmap

Mali-400 MP • First OpenGL ES 2 multi-

core GPU

• Leading area efficiency

Mali-450 MP • Double the performance

of Mali-400 MP

Mali-T622 • Enabling Full Profile

Compute and OpenGL

ES 3.1 in mid-range

Mali-T720 • Optimised area efficiency

and decreased cost and

time-to-market

Mali-T820 & T830 • Performance density

increases

• Bandwidth efficiency with

AFBC and other features

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Mali-T880/T860 builds on top of the technical advances of Mali-T760

Significant improvements in energy efficiency – up to 40% improvement over Mali-T760

Incorporates proven bandwidth reduction technologies : ASTC, AFBC, Smart Composition, TE

Increased Performance

Improved performance across real 3D, causal 2D and UI use cases

Increased arithmetic performance for compute heavy applications

Support for high fidelity content for 4K and beyond

Native 10-bit YUV input and output support

Gamma correct filtering for maximum color fidelity

High performance full speed implementation – no shader conversion

Mali-T880 & Mali-T860 Overview

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ARM® Mali™-T880: New Horizon for Mobile Visuals

1.8x more performance of 2014 Mali-T760 based

devices

Delivering advanced gaming and console-like experiences

Most energy-efficient Mali GPU

40% energy reduction for same workloads

Enabling superior system level benefits

Complemented by Mali-V550 video and Mali-DP550

display processors

TrustZone secure video path for premium 4K content

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Improved Performance for High-End and Casual content

Quad prioritization 2D blitting +40%

2D-like content +12%;

Also benefits advanced content +3-5%

3x ALUs Increased arithmetic performance

Up to 33% Manhattan uplift from HW

Up to 50% Peak compute performance increase

Improved Early Z test throughput

Eliminating work earlier in the pipeline

Cache size tuning, improved thread management

Increase size of L1 and L0 instruction caches

10% 20% 30% 40%

Quaternion Rotation

CLBenchmark

User Interface

Casual Gaming

2D Blit

BasemarkX

GFXBench T-Rex

GFXBench Manhattan

Performance Improvement vs. Mali-760

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Important Mali Design Values

Tile-Based Multi-Core Real Performance

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Tile-based rendering gives

the best start for an energy

efficient GPU architecture.

But more than a technology

it’s a way of thinking to

keep working data close

and bandwidth to minimum

Building multi-core capability

into the core of the

architecture allows ultimate

scalability and partner

flexibility. A valuable and

unrivaled extra dimension

Paper specs are far less

important than real world

performance. Delivering

sustained performance in

real devices with real

constraints is what matters

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Mali Scalability – True Partner Value

Mali is the only GPU IP with true scalability

Multi-core from ground up allows partner configurability

A Mali MP product covers a full roadmap of competing

monolithic products

Unrivaled ability to match to markets

Perfect for hitting the right product position

Fine tune balance of PPA and cost

Ranging from super-efficient performance champions…

… to cost optimized mass-market products

Core hardening can be reused in all configs

Utilize hardening resource efficiency

Reduce Time-To-Market

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Real World Performance

Mali prioritizes real performance over specs

A key example is peak architectural fill-rate

I.e. pixel throughput per clock

Nominal fill-rate has not changed

Same for Mali-400 as for the latest, Mali-T880

One pixel per clock per core through start to end

Effective actual fill-rate is close to double

A true benefit for UI, browsing and casual uses

Achieved through

Innovation focus on real applications and use cases

Architectural tuning for real SoC environments

Mali-400 Mali-T880

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Mali-T604 Mali-T760

Real World Performance

Another example is peak architectural GFLOPS

Comparing between Mali-T604 and Mali-T760

Nominal GFLOPS has not changed

FP32: 34 ops per clock per core for both Mali GPUs

Effective performance more than doubled

Achieved through

Innovation focus on real applications and use cases

Architectural tuning for real SoC environments

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ARM acquired Geomerics in 2013

Enlighten – Physically based Dynamic Lighting

Enlighten reproduces console experiences on

all platforms

ARM and Enlighten – powerful ecosystems

Console Class Gaming Right in your Hands

Available in

Unity 5.0

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Mali Video and Display Roadmap

Video Processor Roadmap

Mali-V500 • Scalable to 4K120 encode/decode

• ARM® Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC)

• Trustzone™ technology enabled

Mali-V550 • 10-bit HEVC decode

• HEVC encode

• Motion Elimination

Display Processor Roadmap

Mali-DP500 • Up to 4k2K display

• Secure display layer

• AFBC

Mali-DP550 • 7 layer composition

• Co-processor interface

• Motion elimination

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First video IP with multi-standard codec including

HEVC ( H.265) for both encode and decode

in a single core

Optimal area solution enables HEVC

in the mainstream

Scalable performance and multi-stream video

1080p 60 on a single core up to 4K120 on 8 cores

Multiple simultaneous encode/decode streams

10-bit YUV support

Optimized for lowest power

More than 50% system bandwidth saving with AFBC

Up to 35% extra system bandwidth saving for WiFi

Display/Miracast with Motion Search Elimination

Robust to bus latency

Design lower cost memory system without dropping frames

HEVC H.264

MPEG4

VP8

VC-1

Real H.263

MPEG2

JPEG

Mali-V550 Overview

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Low power and low memory bandwidth usage

Composition, rotation, scaling, post-processing and display output

in a single pass

Supports system-wide AFBC and Motion Search Elimination

Efficient composition of up to 7 layers

Scales to 4K resolution

Enable 3rd party display differentiation

Co-processor interface enables 3rd party / SoC vendor IP

in Mali display pipeline

Feature rich IP

Wide range of pre-processing and post-processing features

Wide range of YUV/RGB pixel formats including 10-bit YUV

Single or dual display output

Compatible with all major display standards

Mali-DP550 Overview Energy efficient processing all the way to the glass

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ARM Mali and Future Trends

Increase value to customers

Move the limits of architecture

Drive innovation in standards

Resolution race continues, but slowing down

Peak around 4k for most handheld devices

Better fidelity must come from better pixels

Increased use of complex shading algorithms

Growing complexity in geometry

More innovation in middleware and apps

Requires open but robust APIs and GPUs

Real time graphics will continue to be tricks

Every “correct” effect can be faked, cheaper

The cheaper the effects, the more can be used

More effects looks better

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Leverage Mali Ecosystem Partnerships

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Developer Outreach Activities

Presentations, demos and workshops at developer events

Expected to be present at around 20 developer events in 2015

Topics:

Best practises and optimization techniques for ARM Mali graphics

(target game developers)

ARM Tools: MGD, DS-5 Streamline, developer resources

GPU acceleration for UI and Browser (target broadcast industry and

HTML5 developers)

Computer Vision workshop at EVA summit (target ARM partners and

OpenCL / RS developers)

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Mali Developer Center

A full range of resources on one, easy-

access portal (EN & CN):

Tools

SDKs

Drivers

Tutorials & Developer Guides

Sample Code

http://malideveloper.arm.com

http://malideveloper.arm.com/cn

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• API Trace & Debug

• OpenGL® ES, OpenCL™

• Debug and improve performance at frame level

Mali Graphics Debugger

Mali GPU

- Timeline

- HW Counters

- OpenCL visualizer

ARM DS-5 Streamline

• Analyze shader performance

• Generates binary shaders

• Command line tool

Mali Offline Compiler

• Emulate OpenGL ES 2.0 and 3.0

• Windows and Linux

• Khronos Conformant

OpenGL ES Emulator

• Command line and GUI

• ETC, ETC2, ASTC

• 3D textures

Texture Compression Tool

Integration with partners’ tools

Third Party Tools

Mali GPU Software Tools Performance Analysis, Debug, and Software Development

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Thank You

malideveloper.arm.com