Tuesday, March 24, 2020

GPU Driver updates coming to several Google and Samsung phones

Back in December during the Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm announced its updateable GPU drivers for its Snapdragon 765 and 865 platforms. Today, Google introduced its new Android GPU Inspector tool which is a new graphics profiling tool for smartphone GPUs that allows developers to tweak and better optimize their games' performance and push those new gains to consumers straight through OTA updates on the Play Store. The new tool supports both Adreno and Mali GPUs and will give developers the ability to push OTA driver updates to supported devices. The initial list of phones includes the...