N 93 happens to be the first phone with Hardware accelerated 3D Graphics and OpenGL ES (1.1) support. It brought a new age of high-end gaming graphics, better music and faster video encoding/decoding.
Nokia N-93
N93 uses PowerVR 2D/3D graphics accelerator from Imagination Technology together with a fully programmable VGP vertex processor core, FPU (Floating Point Unit) and ARM 11 processor.
N95 has the same features, but it’s benchmarking score (as done by Futuremark SPmark for Symbian OS v9) was less than N93.
Other companies like Sony Erricson, HTC and Samsung also produce HW accelerators. While it is generally accepted that Sony does not put enough power in it’s punch, HTC is a very different story. Both HTC Forseer DVB-H phones and Samsung SGHP910 feature an Nvidia GoForce 5500 GPU’s.
PowerVR MBX supports 300 million pixels/sec 3D fill rate together with 3.7 million triangles drawn per second which is much better than GoForce 5500′s 200 million pixels/sec 3D fill rate with 2.67 million triangles per second.
What 5500 GPU’s lack in 3D acceleration is more than made up in video encoding. While PowerVR supports DVD like video (640×480 at 30 fps), GoForce 5500 boasts a real DVD video quality (720×480 at 30 fps).
Feeling the competition, ATI is also ready to launch itself into this market. Nokia revealed a long-time strategic relationship with ATI on working together to drive better multimedia experience for the users.
With ATI collaborating with Nokia and newARm cortex 8 processors on the edge, we sure can hope to see better, hear better and play better.
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