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## [Flow Control on PowerVR – Optimising Shaders](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/flow-control-on-powervr-optimising-shaders/)

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4 min read

We’re back again with another excerpt from our new documentation website. Today, we’ll be looking...

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## [Balancing GPU workloads on PowerVR hardware](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/balancing-gpu-workloads-on-powervr-hardware/)

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3 min read

If you’ve been following this series of posts from the beginning you probably know the drill by...

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## [Imagination’s DevTech team – out and about](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/imaginations-devtech-team-out-and-about/)

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Our DevTech team offers support and creates the tools and documentation that make it easy for...

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## [Why you really should be using mipmapping in your graphics applications](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/why-you-really-should-be-using-mipmapping-in-your-graphics-applications/)

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2 min read

The new PowerVR developer documentation website has been up and running for a few weeks now. We’re...

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## [Sorting Objects and Geometry on PowerVR Hardware](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/sorting-objects-and-geometry-on-powervr-hardware/)

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2 min read

It can be tough trying to figure out the best way to optimise your applications during development....

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## [PowerVR SDK 2019 Release 1 now available for download](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/powervr-sdk-2019-release-1-now-available-for-download/)

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It may only seem like five minutes since our last release at Christmas, but here we are again with...

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## [PowerVR Tools and SDK 2018 Release 2 now available](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/powervr-tools-and-sdk-2018-release-2-now-available/)

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Here’s an early Christmas present for graphics developers – the release of the latest version of...

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## [Stuck on OpenGL ES? Time to move on! Why Vulkan is the future of graphics](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/stuck-on-opengl-es-time-to-move-on-why-vulkan-is-the-future-of-graphics/)

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Once, when you were looking to develop a mobile application with complex graphics, in most cases...

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## [PowerVR Tools and SDK 2018 Release 1 now available](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/powervr-tools-and-sdk-2018-release-1-now-available/)

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4 min read

The PowerVR Developer Technology team is delighted to announce the latest version of our PowerVR...

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