Qualcomm Adreno 506
The Qualcomm Adreno 506 is a mobile graphics card for mid-range smartphones and tablets (mostly Android based). It is included in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 SoCs and based on the Adreno 500 architecture (like the Adreno 520 in the S820, which should be fully compatible in software).
The GPU supports modern standards like Vulkan 1.0 (according to Wikipedia), OpenGL ES 3.1 + AE (3.2 in other sources), OpenCL 2.0 and DirectX 12 (FL 12.1 according to Wikipedia, 11.1 according to Qualcomm). Furthermore, the GPU supports Universal Bandwidth Compression (UBWC) to save memory bandwidth.
Adreno 500 Series |
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Architecture | Adreno 500 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Core Speed | 650 MHz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shared Memory | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
API | DirectX 12.1, OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
technology | 14 nm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features | OpenGL ES 3.2, OpenCL 2.0, Direct3D 12 (FL 12_1) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of Announcement | 15.12.2015 |
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