Imagination and Kishonti preview GLBenchmark 2.5 at SIGGRAPH 2011

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09 August 2011

Vancouver,Canada, August 9^th2011: ImaginationTechnologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, andKishonti Informatics, a trusted benchmarking service provider, are demonstrating publicly, for the first time, a previewof the latest Kishonti GLBenchmark 2.5 benchmark running on some of the latestdevices powered by PowerVR graphics at SIGGRAPH 2011.

The demonstration, which focuses on graphicsapplication performance using the OpenGLES 2.0 API from Khronos, will be demonstrated at Imagination’s booth (#129)running on several devices incorporating Imagination’s PowerVR Series5 and Series5XTmultiprocessor graphics acceleration IP cores.

Says Tony King-Smith, VP marketing, Imagination: “As highperformance applications platforms offering accelerated OpenGL ES 2.0 basedgraphics become widespread across more mobile phones, computing devices andgames consoles, the need for appropriate, consistent and trusted benchmarkscontinues to grow across an ever broader spectrum of users throughout thesupply chain. Kishonti’s GLBenchmark is one of the key trusted tools reliedupon by the industry for comparing and quantifying OpenGL ES 2.0 and 1.1 performance.Imagination has worked extremely closely with Kishonti to help them developtheir benchmark tools since the earliest days of their GLBenchmark suite, and weare pleased to help them show their latest benchmarking tools at SIGGRAPH2011.”

Says Laszlo Kishonti, founderand general manager of Kishonti Informatics: “We are delighted to have theopportunity to demonstrate our forthcoming GLBenchmark 2.5 with our key partnerImagination, the recognized industry leader in embedded and mobile graphics, atSIGGRAPH, the world’s most important graphics conference. Mobile phones,tablets and other embedded devices are becoming by far the highest volume andmost widely used platforms for high performance graphics. More than ever beforedevelopers, silicon vendors, OEMs, analysts and many others are coming to us touse GLBenchmark tools to analyze and compare solutions. We believe GLBenchmark2.5 will be a vital tool for the mobile and computing industries to help themquantify and validate graphics performance.”

Editor’s Notes: About GLBenchmark

The GLBenchmark is a suiteof tests used by many semiconductor vendors, OEMs and systems developers tomeasure performance of OpenGL ES 2.0 enabled application platforms. Accordingto Kishonti, GLBenchmark 2.5 has been designed from the ground up todemonstrate and measure the true potential of OpenGL ES 2.0 Hardware. GLBenchmark2.5 efficiently demonstrates high quality real-time effects including bump, environmentand radiance mapping; soft shadows; vertex shader based skinning; automaticlevels of detail (LOD); multi-pass deferred rendering; noise textures; ETC1texture compression; and full screen anti-aliasing. The built-in shadercode  (GLSL) generator enables real-timeperformance tuning and de-compositing.

About Kishonti Informatics

Kishonti Informatics is aleading specialist in mobile performance optimization software technologies anda worldwide leader in mobile performance analytics and mobile phonebenchmarking. Its performance optimization, software development capabilitiesand its testing tools and benchmarking services are widely used by wirelessnetwork operators, phone manufacturers, game developers and enthusiasticconsumers worldwide.

See:www.kishontiinformatics.com.

About ImaginationTechnologies

Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE:IMG) – a global leaderin multimedia and communication technologies – creates and licensesmarket-leading multimedia IP cores for graphics, video, and display processing,multi-threaded embedded processing/DSP cores and multi-standard communications andconnectivity processors. These silicon intellectual property (IP) solutions forsystems-on-chip (SoC) are complemented by platform level IP and services, astrong array of software tools and drivers and extensive developer andmiddleware ecosystems. Target markets include mobile phone, handheldmultimedia, home consumer entertainment, mobile and low-power computing, andin-car electronics. Its licensees include many of the leading semiconductor andconsumer electronics companies. Imagination has corporate headquarters in theUnited Kingdom, with sales and R&D offices worldwide. See:www.imgtec.com.

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