_{A (slightly) lower level view of the Mali T658 chip. [Source: ARM Holdings]}

All the chips feature support for the latest standards including OpenGL ES 3.0 and DirectX 11.  The latter feature is important, as it will allow ARM's GPU cores to be included on the system-on-a-chip (SoC) brains of upcoming Windows 8 tablet designs.

Samsung's Taehoon Kim a VP in his company's chipmaking division praised the new CPU, commenting, "An advanced visual computing experience is an expectation that most consumers have when they purchase a new smartphone, tablet or smart-TV.  It is therefore important that Samsung works with partners, such as ARM, to achieve technology leadership in areas that include advanced graphics and GPU compute. The next generation of the ARM Mali-T600 series GPU is an important introduction, and will help Samsung Exynos processor to address consumer demands."

 

_{The Mali T6xx GPUs should pop up in future Samsung smartphones and tablets.}

 

The new GPUs all feature a special proprietary multi-format texture compression technology called Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC).  ARM says the technology will save battery life while delivering better graphics, without any programming hassle.