Following on from my post yesterday about the best 3D handsets, I’ve come across this absolute nugget of a story, which is also a remnant from MWC.
Imagination Techologies had a stand at MWC which compared the N81 (without dedicated 3D hardware) and the Nokia N95 (which does have) – so this was the N81 running graphics off it’s CPU, versus the N95 with the “turbo” provided by a dedicated chip. Luckily someone captured a video of it here.
It’s possible to see from the video that there is 50-60x acceleration achieved by dedicated HW acceleration – an argument backed up by nVidia, who I reported on yesterday also (check that out here).
Personally I can’t wait for the time when (a) this technology becomes standard and (b) vendors start to make real use of it – Nokia’s S60 Touch interface might be the first where we really see that happening…..
[Via: Pocketgamer.co.uk]