Qualcomm Reveals the First Few Phones to Get GPU Driver Updates

Alongside Snapdragon 865 chipset's annunciation last December, Qualcomm promised GPU driver updates through Google Play Store. The company has now updated its progress and has revealed the first few phones to get driver updates.

"Similar to PC gaming, smartphone users will be able to update their GPU drivers more frequently and take advantage of potential operation and characteristic gains…Android games on Snapdragon are well-nigh to get turbocharged and finally benefit from this unique characteristic.", wrote Qualcomm.

Qualcomm has worked with Google to develop a graphics profiling tool called Android GPU Inspector. According to Qualcomm, Android GPU Inspector lets game developers analyze their games on the Adreno GPU to bring in better optimizations. Google briefed about the Android GPU Inspector tool at its Google for Games Programmer summit keynote yesterday, whose video can be watched beneath.

Speaking of optimizations, Qualcomm claims that Google and a game partner using the Android GPU Inspector on a Pixel four XL was able to discover an opportunity to reduce the GPU utilization by xl percent. The optimization, Qualcomm says, delivered faster frame rates and longer battery life.

Qualcomm will be giving early access to its beta drivers for developers to test them. The whole concept of updateable drivers makes information technology possible for game studios to optimize and provide feedback to Google and Qualcomm to enhance the drivers faster than always before.

Qualcomm'southward GPU driver updates volition be initially limited to the Google Pixel four and Pixel 4 XL, Samsung Galaxy S10, and Samsung Milky way Note 10. Surprisingly, none of the so-called gaming phones are included in the kickoff wave. The post mentions that more devices volition be added after. Considering this is a GPU-centric alter, we could expect makers of defended gaming phones to be onboard real soon.