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2y ago

Tested: Snapdragon-powered Android phones just got a lot faster at ray tracing

www.androidauthority.com Tested: Snapdragon-powered Android phones just got a lot faster at ray tracing

A new round of ray tracing benchmarks with 3DMark's Solar Bay suggests that Snapdragon phones have become much better at ray tracing.

Tested: Snapdragon-powered Android phones just got a lot faster at ray tracing

Android Authority: 3DMark's benchmarking suite has launched its first ray tracing test and we've run it on a bunch of phones

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This is not a feature that a device with limited available power to consume needs. It's just dumb.
- I disagree. I use my old phone exclusively as a gaming device. If it needs power, I plug it in. The better graphics it can handle, the better
  
  So you believe it needs it as a standard feature even though gaming phones that it's more appropriate for are a thing?
- The only argument you can really have is about die space. If fixed function hardware is on die for ray tracing.
  The chip could be cheaper or have a larger rasterization GPU block, AV1 encode block etc etc
- This is not a feature that a device with limited available power to consume needs.
  I don't disagree, but I'm not sure that that is the long-run game.
  I think that many of us consider Android to be a supplemental platform to a "heavyweight" computing platform, like Linux, MacOS, or Windows.
  My understanding is that an increasing number of younger people don't know how to use those platforms. Just a smartphone platform.
  And I see attempts to shift towards heavier-weight Android devices.
  It may be that the aim here is to move towards larger Android devices.
- I don't think we'll be using dedicated hardware for these work loads for very long.
  FPGAs will likely phone several tasks such as encryption, ray tracing, ml, etc.
  That said I would very much like raytracing in my phone as it is the lowest barrier of entry for VR/AR which could benefit from raytracing.

Awesome, a high end graphics feature that brings even the biggest dGPU to its knees just got better on a mobile phone with a 6” screen and tiny battery. That 8 minutes of playing before the battery dies sure will look fancy!

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