Raspberry Pi GPU doubles iPhone 4S performance

Raspberry Pi – the $25 credit-card sized computer – features an advanced graphics core that outperforms the GPU in iPhone 4S by a factor of two to one “across a range of content”, according to claims made by the manufacturer in a new Digital Foundry interview published today on GamesIndustry.biz. Discussing the graphical potential of the Broadcom BCM2835 chipset at the heart of the device, executive director Eben Upton describes how it compares to the graphics capabilities of the most popular mobile devices. “I was on the team that designed the graphics core, so I’m a little biased here, but I genuinely believe we have the best mobile GPU team in the world at Broadcom in Cambridge,” Upton says, when asked to confirm rumours that Raspberry Pi comprehensively outperforms NVIDIA’s Tegra 2. Read more…