--- title: "The complete guide to PowerVR Rogue GPUs: specifications, features, API support - Imagination" description: This article offers developers and consumers a comprehensive look at the specifications, features and API support for all PowerVR Rogue GPUs. image: https://blog.imaginationtech.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/PowerVR-Rogue-Graphics-IP-GPU-roadmap-1.png --- [![Imagination](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/hubfs/Imagination_December2019%20Theme/Images/Header%20Logo%20White.svg) ![Imagination](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/hubfs/Imagination_December2019%20Theme/Images/Header%20Logo%20Black.svg)](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/) - [Products & Solutions](https://www.imaginationtech.com/products/) - [GPU](https://www.imaginationtech.com/products/gpu/) - [CPU](https://www.imaginationtech.com/products/cpu/) - [AI](https://www.imaginationtech.com/products/ai/) - [Ethernet](https://www.imaginationtech.com/products/ethernet/) - [Ray Tracing](https://www.imaginationtech.com/products/ray-tracing/) - 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17 July 2014 - [Imagination Technologies](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/author/imaginationtech) While writing the conclusion for the article [announcing OpenGL® ES 3.1 conformance for PowerVR Rogue GPUs](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/powervr-rogue-gpus-achieve-opengl-es-3-1-conformance-we-go-hands-on-with-a-compute-demo/), I suddenly realized that we now have *more than ten apps processors* using PowerVR Rogue GPUs; this includes various configurations of dual or quad-cluster PowerVR Series6 graphics processors. Therefore, I came up with this idea of offering a bite-sized blog post that summarizes our current line-up of GPUs. You can use the menu below to navigate between our GPU families: - [**PowerVR Rogue GPUs**](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/the-complete-guide-to-powervr-rogue-gpus-specifications-features-api-support/#rogueroadmap) - [PowerVR Series6XT](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/the-complete-guide-to-powervr-rogue-gpus-specifications-features-api-support/#series6xt) - [PowerVR Series6](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/the-complete-guide-to-powervr-rogue-gpus-specifications-features-api-support/#series6) - [PowerVR Series6XE](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/the-complete-guide-to-powervr-rogue-gpus-specifications-features-api-support/#series6xe) - [**PowerVR Wizard ray tracing GPUs**](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/the-complete-guide-to-powervr-rogue-gpus-specifications-features-api-support/#wizard) This article is meant to offer you a comprehensive look at the specifications, features and API support for the PowerVR Rogue family. I highly recommend you add it to your bookmarks and come back from time to time because I will continue updating it when we announce [next-generation GPUs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4YV2_TcCoE). If you want a better understanding of the internal architecture of the ***USC*** (Unified Shading Cluster), please read Rys’s expose (***[Graphics cores: trying to compare apples to apples](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/graphics-cores-trying-compare-apples-apples/)***) and check out ***[Imagination’s PowerVR Rogue Architecture Explored](https://anandtech.com/show/7793/imaginations-powervr-rogue-architecture-exposed)*** (lots of diagrams included), an in-depth review from Ryan Smith at Anandtech*.* *For those of you who want to query this information in code, Joe Davis from our Developer Support team has uploaded **a C++ helper function to GitHub** that takes a PowerVR Rogue model number string as input (e.g. an OpenGL ES GL\_RENDERER string) and outputs a structure of basic hardware capabilities. Try it out on a mobile device that has a PowerVR GPU and let us know what you think we should add or improve.* In summary, our PowerVR Rogue graphics architecture brings a number of unique features designed to improve overall system performance, lower power consumption and reduce memory bandwidth: - **Scalar processing** to achieve the highest utilization of ALUs and ease graphics programming - **PVR3C™ triple compression**: a combination of lossy texture compression (PVRTC and ASTC), lossless image compression (PVRIC) and lossless geometry compression (PVRGC) techniques to reduce memory bandwidth - **PowerGearing™** to manage different power consumption levels and balance overall SoC power consumption - A mix of **FP32 and FP16 ALUs** for high-precision/low-power computing. There are currently three families of GPUs based on the PowerVR Rogue architecture (see the roadmap below); the tables that follow describe how the features above map to each GPU. [![PowerVR Rogue GPUs - Graphics IP roadmap](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/PowerVR-Rogue-Graphics-IP-GPU-roadmap.png)](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/PowerVR-Rogue-Graphics-IP-GPU-roadmap.png) #### PowerVR Series6XT GPUs: ultra-high performance, ultimate feature set Introduced at CES 2014: [blog article](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/new-powervr-series6xt-gpus-go-rogue-ces-2014/) | **PowerVR GPU** | **No. of USCs** | **No. of ALUs** | **Texture compression** | **Frame buffer compression** | **Geometry compression** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **GX6240** | 2 | 64 (FP32) 128 (FP16) | PVRTC1/2 ETC1/2 BC1/2/3 | – | PVRGC | | **GX6250** | 2 | 64 (FP32) 128 (FP16) | PVRTC1/2 ASTC (LDR + HDR) ETC1/2 BC1/2/3 | PVRIC2 | PVRGC | | **GX6450** | 4 | 128 (FP32) 256 (FP16) | PVRTC1/2 ASTC (LDR + HDR) ETC1/2 BC1/2/3 | PVRIC2 | PVRGC | | **GX6650** | 6 | 192 (FP32) 384 (FP16) | PVRTC1/2 ASTC (LDR + HDR) ETC1/2 BC1/2/3 | PVRIC2 | PVRGC | **API support\***: OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.1, OpenGL 3.3, OpenCL 1.2 EP, RenderScript, DirectX 10\_0 [*^Go back to the main menu*](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/the-complete-guide-to-powervr-rogue-gpus-specifications-features-api-support/#roguemenu) #### PowerVR Series6 GPUs: performance efficiency and a balanced feature set Introduced at CES 2012: | **PowerVR GPU** | **No. of USCs** | **No. of ALUs** | **Texture compression** | **Frame buffer compression** | **Geometry compression** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **G6200** | 2 | 64 (FP32) | PVRTC1/2 ETC1/2 BC1/2/3 | – | PVRGC | | **G6230** | 2 | 64 (FP32) 96 (FP16) | PVRTC1/2 ETC1/2 BC1/2/3 | PVRIC | PVRGC | | **G6400** | 4 | 128 (FP32) | PVRTC1/2 ETC1/2 BC1/2/3 | – | PVRGC | | **G6430** | 4 | 128 (FP32) 192 (FP16) | PVRTC1/2 ETC1/2 BC1/2/3 | PVRIC | PVRGC | | **G6630** | 6 | 192 (FP32) 288 (FP16) | PVRTC1/2 ETC1/2 BC1/2/3 | PVRIC | PVRGC | **API support**: OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.1, OpenGL 3.3, OpenCL 1.2 EP, RenderScript, DirectX 10\_0 [*^Go back to the main menu*](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/the-complete-guide-to-powervr-rogue-gpus-specifications-features-api-support/#roguemenu) #### PowerVR Series6XE GPUs: OpenGL ES 3.1 for everyone! Introduced at CES 2014: [blog article](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/powervr-series6xe-gpus-bring-opengl-es-3-0-graphics-everyone/) | **PowerVR GPU** | **No. of USCs** | **No. of ALUs** | **Texture compression** | **Frame buffer compression** | **Geometry compression** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **G6050** | 1/2 | 16 (FP32) 32 (FP16) | PVRTC1/2 ETC1/2 BC1/2/3 | – | – | | **G6060** | 1/2 | 16 (FP32) 32 (FP16) | PVRTC1/2 ETC1/2 BC1/2/3 | PVRIC2 | – | | **G6100** | 1 | 32 (FP32) 64 (FP16) | PVRTC1/2 ETC1/2 BC1/2/3 | – | PVRGC | | **G6110** | 1 | 32 (FP32) 64 (FP16) | PVRTC1/2 ETC1/2 BC1/2/3 | PVRIC2 | PVRGC | **API support\***: OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.1, OpenGL 3.2, OpenCL 1.2 EP, RenderScript, DirectX 9\_3 [*^Go back to the main menu*](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/the-complete-guide-to-powervr-rogue-gpus-specifications-features-api-support/#roguemenu) #### PowerVR Wizard ray tracing GPUs: interactive cinematic realism for mainstream devices Introduced at GDC 2014: | **PowerVR GPU** | **No. of USCs** | **No. of ALUs** | **Texture compression** | **Frame buffer compression** | **Geometry compression** | **Ray tracing performance at 600 MHz** | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **GR6500** | 4 | 128 (FP32) 256 (FP16) | PVRTC1/2 ASTC ETC1/2 BC1/2/3 | PVRIC2 | PVRGC | 300 million rays per second 24 billion node tests per second 100 million dynamic triangles per second | **API support\***: OpenGL ES 1.1/2.0/3.1, OpenGL 3.3, OpenCL 1.2 EP, OpenRL 1.x, RenderScript, DirectX 9\_3 [*^Go back to the main menu*](https://blog.imaginationtech.com/the-complete-guide-to-powervr-rogue-gpus-specifications-features-api-support/#roguemenu) I hope that this article provides a useful overview of our PowerVR Rogue GPUs. 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