It is being rumoured that ARM could be building its own dedicated gaming GPU, effectively pitting it against the titans of industry, including NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel.
According to a report by The Globes, ARM has already begun work on its gaming GPU, with approximately a hundred chip and software developer engineers in its Israel office already working on said project. The group’s technical focus is supposed focused primarily on gaming. However, it is still unclear if the mobile chipmaker will be making a discrete GPU or something akin to an integrated GPU, just as Intel has done with its ARC-based Xe2 Cores on its upcoming Lunar Lake processor.
It also hasn’t been made clear whether the company plans on making it work with x86 or its own ARM processors, or both. Having said that, if it plans on taking on the likes of NVIDIA, it would make sense for it to build a full-sized, full-fat desktop GPU as a start. And it’s not like it’s just entering the market – it launched its own Accuracy Super Resolution (ASR) upscaling technology back in June, modelled after AMD’s own FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR2) technology.
ARM’s confidence is clearly being drawn from the good headwind it’s gotten since the launch of Qualcomm’s laptop-based Snapdragon X Series of processors, and desktop-sized variants are expected to be coming soon.
(Source: Tom’s Hardware, Techspot)
