Mali-T604

Designed for visual computing and using an innovative tri-pipe architecture, the ARM® Mali™-T604 GPU delivers significant performance improvements over current Mali graphics processors. This fourth-generation of Mali embedded graphics IP is specifically designed to meet the needs of General Purpose computing on GPU (GPGPU) and extends API support to include full profile as well as embedded Khronos™ OpenCL™ and Microsoft® DirectX®.

Why Mali-T604?

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Designed for Visual Computing and using an innovative tri-pipe architecture, the ARM® Mali™-T604 GPU Compute solution builds upon a track record for high-quality scalable multicore solutions for 2D and 3D graphics. Key APIs supported include OpenVG™ 1.1,OpenGL® ES 1.1, 2.0, DirectX® 11 and OpenCL™ 1.1.

The Mali-T604 is the first GPU based on the Midgard architecture and offers scalability from one to four cores. It is a complete embedded graphics and GPU Compute acceleration platform and enables the development of advanced user interfaces, gaming capabilities and GPU Compute applications for a wide range of tomorrow’s consumer devices, from mobile phones to smartbooks, from HDTV to portable gaming and beyond.

Mali-T604 pipelines provide true IEEE double-precision floating point math in hardware for Full Profile, as well as Embedded Profile, OpenCL support. Production quality software support is provided via a single driver stack for all multicore configurations, simplifying application porting, system integration and maintenance. Multicore scheduling and performance scaling is fully handled within the graphics system, with no special considerations required from the application developer.

The Job Manager within Mali-T600 Series GPUs offloads task management from the CPU to the GPU and enables seamless load balancing across active shader cores. Through ARM coherency and interconnect technology, compute tasks can conveniently span the CPU and GPU as well as other available compute resources, accessing data more efficiently during shared processing in a heterogeneous system.

*Mali GPUs noted as based on a published Khronos Specification are conformant, or expected to pass the Khronos Conformance Testing Process. Current conformance status can be found at http://www.khronos.org/conformance.

The Mali-T604 GPU delivers up to 5x performance improvement over previous Mali graphics processors and is scalable up to 4 cores.

Features	Value	Description
Anti-Aliasing	4xFSAA 16xFSAA	4x Full Scene Anti-Aliasing (FSAA) with minimal performance drop
API Support	OpenGL® ES 1.1, 2.0 OpenVG™ 1.1 OpenCL™ 1.1 DirectX® 11 Renderscript™	Full support for next-generation and legacy 2D/3D graphics applications
Bus Interface	AMBA®4 ACE-LITE	Compatible with a wide range of bus interconnect and peripheral IP
L2 Cache	Configurable 32KB-256KB	32KB recommended per core
Memory System	Virtual Memory	Built-in Memory Management Unit (MMU) to support virtual memory
Multi-Core Scaling	1 to 4 cores	A single IP covering a range of mid to high-end product requirements and price/performance points

Mali Developer Resources

The Mali Developer Center provides a wide range of 3rd party development tools, middleware and existing demonstration applications to assist in the deployment of graphics applications and content on Mali-T604 based systems.

Content Creation	• Mali Texture Compression Tool • Mali Asset Conditioning Tool
Software Development	• OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0 Emulator • OpenGL ES 2.0 Software Development Kit • Mali User Interface Engine • Mali Binary Asset Exporter
Shader Authoring	• Mali Shader Development Studio • Mali Offline Shader Compiler • Mali Shader Library
Performance Analysis	• Mali Performance Analysis tool

Processor IP
Cortex-A7	The ARM Cortex™-A7 MPCore™ processor is the most efficient application processor ARM has ever developed and dramatically extends ARM’s low-power leadership in future entry level smart phones, tablets and other advanced mobile devices.
Cortex-A8	The ARM Cortex-A8 processor has the ability to scale in speed from 600MHz to greater than 1GHz, meeting the requirements for power-optimized mobile devices needing operation in less than 300mW; and performance-optimized consumer applications requiring 2000 Dhrystone MIPS.
Cortex-A9	Available as either a single core or configurable multicore processor, the Cortex-A9 processor can scale across a wide variety of applications making it an ideal solution for designs requiring high performance in low power or thermally constrained cost-sensitive devices.
Cortex-A15	The Cortex-A15 MPCore processor delivers a 5x performance improvement over today’s advanced smartphone processors, within a comparable energy footprint.

System IP
System IP provides the interconnect and peripheral components that enable Mali-T604 to deliver its full performance potential within energy efficient SoC designs
AMBA AXI Interconnect and Peripherals	System IP generators, level-2 cache control, memory controllers and peripherals compatible with the AMBA AXI standard.

Physical IP
Physical IP Platforms deliver process optimised IP, for best-in-class implementations of the Mali-T604 graphics processor
Standard Cell Logic Libraries	Available in a variety of different architectures ARM Standard Cell Libraries support a wide performance range for all types of SoC designs. Designers can choose between different libraries and optimize their designs for speed, power and/or area
Memory Compilers and Registers	A broad array of silicon proven SRAM, Register File and ROM memory compilers for all types of SoC designs ranging from performance critical to cost sensitive and low power applications
Interface Libraries	A broad portfolio of silicon-proven Interface IP designed to meet varying system architectures and standards. General Purpose I/O, Specialty I/O, High Speed DDR and Serial Interfaces are optimized to deliver high data throughput performance with low pin counts

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