The Apple iPhone 5 will face a new challenger once the Samsung Galaxy S 4gets introduced on Thursday. Each phone is the flagship model of its respective platform, but a blog post from Imagination lets us in on a little secret: both the Apple iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S 4 will have a PowerVR GPU crunching the graphics on each phone.
The PowerVR SGX544MP
Imagination said in its blog that the Samsung Galaxy S 4 would have the PowerVR SGX544 inside, paired with the Samsung Exynos 5410 Octa. Samsung uses the ARM produced Mali on the international version of the Samsung Galaxy S III, which is powered with the quad-core Samsung Exynos 4412. The U.S. carrier version of the phone features the Adreno 225 together with the dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro MSM8960.
Meanwhile, the Apple iPhone 5 features the PowerVR SGX543 which is very similar to the PowerVR SGX544 on the Samsung Galaxy S 4. The only difference is that the SGX544 supports Microsoft's DirectX 9.3. Samsung plans on running the GPU at a faster clock speed and will use the same triple-core set up as used on the Apple iPhone.
So guys, perhaps we can use this knowledge that both the Apple iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S 4 both use a PowerVR GPU to just get a little closer. In the words of the late Rodney King, "Can we all get along?"
Alan, an ardent smartphone enthusiast and a veteran writer at PhoneArena since 2009, has witnessed and chronicled the transformative years of mobile technology. Owning iconic phones from the original iPhone to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, he has seen smartphones evolve into a global phenomenon. Beyond smartphones, Alan has covered the emergence of tablets, smartwatches, and smart speakers.
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