iPhone 6S and iPad Air 3 will be launched only next year by the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, but its traditional partner PowerVR has already presented the future graphics cards to be integrated into these terminals. Every year the company presents the new chips during this period giving Apple the opportunity to test its products before implementation in iDevices, and for next year we could have a graphics card whose performance increase would amount to 60%. Two families of graphics cards were introduced, PowerVR Series7X7 and Series7XE were presented, they being the superior generations of the current graphics cards from iPhone 6 and iPad Air 2.
Series7XT and Series7XE GPUs achieve up to a 60% architectural performance increase on the latest industry standard benchmarks compared to equivalent configurations of previous generation PowerVR Series6XT/6XE GPUs, maintaining and extending PowerVR's reputation as the most efficient, highest performance, lowest power GPU.
In iPhone 6 and iPad Air 2 we have graphics cards PowerVR Series6XT, the new Series 7XT featuring 16 shader processing clusters with up to 512 graphics cores capable of processing console-like graphics, including HDR and 4K. As you can already see from the image below, we are basically talking about a doubling of the specifications for this product, it still offers support for OpenGL 3.1, although Apple is heavily promoting Metal. Having said that, we will most likely have new, much better performing graphics cards in the terminals that will be released next year.
