Imagine a new way to do cloud gaming
Scalable GPU performance that makes cloud-based graphics more efficient than ever before
Why work with us?
With over thirty years of experience at the forefront of the 3D graphics industry, we are now applying our expertise to the rapidly expanding cloud gaming market. Our highly performant yet power and area-efficient GPU IP is in a unique position to address the challenges faced by today’s data-centre operators and is the perfect partner to RISC-V and Arm CPUs.
Changing the dynamic for data centre cloud gaming
The cloud gaming market has developed rapidly in recent years and is expected to be valued at $21Bn by 2030. As it grows, providers are challenged with how to handle increasing numbers of gamers while maximising their profit margins. This white paper shows how Imagination GPUs can enable cloud gaming providers to provide a high-quality service while minimising the energy and infrastructure costs.
HyperLane technology
Maximise the number of gamers you can host on each GPU with HyperLane, Imagination’s virtualization technology. Every Imagination GPU core offers up to eight individual hardware control lanes, each isolated in memory, enabling fully secure GPU multitasking. For example, each core can host up to eight operating systems running separate screens with no performance overhead.
Ray tracing is the future
The future of gaming is ray traced. With all major GPU providers now offering real-time ray tracing hardware across both the desktop and mobile space, it is only a matter of time before games that take full advantage of its benefits become manstream. This means cloud gamers will demand ray traced effects from their service providers. See how real-time ray tracing can benefit computer graphics in this demo.
Our unique technology
Imagination GPUs are the perfect graphics partner for all existing data centre architectures. We offer a range of scalable GPU IP that delivers high performance while maintaining the energy and area efficiency focus of our mobile heritage.
Graphics
Our high-end GPUs offer outstanding performance for cloud graphics. Multi-core options are available from the B-Series onwards to give your services that extra edge.
Multi-Core Technology
Cloud gaming servers require flexible performance scaling. Imagination’s decentralised multi-core approach was launched in 2020 with our B-Series of GPUs. Separate GPU cores can work together to achieve the maximum possible performance, or individually in order to service more gamers.
API coverage
We have the software you need for success including OpenGL, OpenGL® ES and Vulkan® API support and advanced developer tools such as PowerVR Carbon, our powerful API tracing and debugging tool and PVRTune, our industry-leading profiling and analysis utility for graphics applications.
Our partnerships
"By integrating IMG B-Series GPU technology, we were able to create an incredibly power-efficient solution, that delivers 4K performance in a PCI-E Gen 4 GPU"
Roger Mao | Executive Vice President.
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