If you are a fan of gaming, then you must know that Apple has the opportunity to implement in the iPhone a new PowerVR Furian video card announced yesterday. We are talking about a new generation of video cards developed by Imagination Technologies, offering exceptional performance for smartphones starting next year.
Furian's PowerVR architecture offers up to 90% better performance than current video cards, so iPhone terminals would benefit greatly from them. The Apple company uses the current PowerVR Rogue series for iPhone terminals, so it will switch to Furian starting in 2018, when the new architecture will be offered by Imagination Technologies.
Apart from the doubling of performance, Furian's PowerVR architecture also substantially reduces energy consumption, so the autonomy of the iPhone battery could also benefit. Considering that PowerVR Furian supports 4K resolution for games, we could see exceptional titles on Apple products, but also an increase in the resolution of smartphones.
iPhone with 4K screens may be launched by Apple
Thanks to these new video cards, the Apple company can implement 4K resolution for the iPhone screen starting in 2018, especially since the processors will be able to support the resolution until then. Based on these technologies, the Apple company can offer a major change for the iPhone 8S starting in 2018, but only if it wants to.
Apart from the 4K resolution for the iPhone, the new video card could also allow offering functions for augmented and virtual reality that will amaze. Now if you think that Apple will not implement PowerVR Furian video cards in its terminals, well, you are wrong, because Apple has only used PowerVR products in iPhone and iPad so far.
"We created Furian to address a new class of emerging applications, with a focus on efficient scalability that will extend to multiple generations of PowerVR IP cores. We're excited to start rolling out the first 8XT IP cores based on Furian. These cores will further cement the leadership of PowerVR at the high end of mobile performance.”
Apple even wanted to buy Imagination Technologies, so there is no discussion about the choice that Apple will make, so the first iPhone with 4K resolution could be launched in 2018.
