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Kindle Fire HD has PowerVR chip able to support OpenCL graphics—video demo

January 07, 2013 by Tony DeYoung

Engaget reports that the Kindle Fire HD has a PowerVR GPU inside which could in the future, be used for OpenCL accelerated graphics.

While Amazon has no immediate plans to implement OpenCL on the Fire HD, this Kindle Fire HD demo shows how OpenCL has the power to boost frame rates by 50 percent while simultaneously lowering power consumption by the same proportion.

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