The latest PC games demand a great deal of raw computational grunt. High performance GPUs have typically been purchased by end users who are building a PC that can handle 3D gaming. utilizing the chips parallel programming capabilities to greatly increase performance. Applications like Adobe’s Premiere Pro, Photoshop and Illustrator all benefit from the kind of performance that can only be delivered by the system’s graphics processor or GPU, using it as a General Purpose GPU, i.e. One things that many of us creative professionals have been looking forward to in recent years is the introduction GPGPU processing in many of the heavier applications that don’t actually benefit from incrementally improving CPU performance. Mobile Geeks explore how Adobe finally got accelerated on Intel’s new Iris Pro Graphics platform: We All Want General Purpose GPU Performance
However, thanks to the more advanced graphics processing available on our mobile processors, and the inclusion of software standards like OpenCL and OpenGL, popular applications from software giant Adobe are finally starting to feel lot slicker than ever before. The idea of doing any kind of serious video or image editing on a mobile computer would have made any designer or editor cringe just a few years ago.