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Therefore, it should be able to handle most Android games up to Full HD fluently. The clock speed is not disclosed.Įarly benchmarks and performance ratings from Qualcomm position the GPU on a level with the old Adreno 330 (former high end GPU) in the Snapdragon 810. Furthermore, the GPU supports Universal Bandwidth Compression (UBWC) to save memory bandwidth.Ĭompared the the faster Adreno 530, the 510 is currently produced in the older 28nm process (650 and 652) and should offer less ALUs. The GPU supports modern standards like Vulkan 1.0 (according to Wikipedia), OpenGL ES 3.1 + AE (3.2 in other sources), OpenCL 2.0 and DirectX 12 (FL 12.1 according to Wikipedia, 11.1 according to Qualcomm).
It is included in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 and 652 SoCs and based on the Adreno 500 architecture (like the Adreno 520 in the S820, which should be fully compatible in software). Rest assured, we’ll follow up our “hot take” coverage with more thorough, detailed looks at the new system-on-chip and all of its features.The Qualcomm Adreno 510 is a mobile graphics card for mid-range smartphones and tablets (mostly Android based). If Qualcomm’s claims are true, we’re looking at a new GPU kingpin.Įditor’s note: These are our initial impressions of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 platform - we haven’t had time to put it through its paces yet. It remains to be seen just how tangible the Adreno 630’s improvements are on smartphone and tablet form factors, of course, but there’s no denying that it’s much more powerful than its predecessor. Qualcomm says it’s working with Google, Vive, Oculus, and others on upcoming peripherals. While the Adreno 540 maxed out at 1.5k x 1.5k at 60 frames per second, the Adreno 630 can go up to 2k x 2k at 120 frames per second. On the hardware side of the VR and AR equation, the Adreno 630 supports a wide range of headsets. Multiview rendering frees up CPU cycles, GPU cycles, and DRAM by rendering objects first to the left eye buffer, and then copying them to right eye buffer, making adjustments for position, reflections, and rendered objects and elements as needed. And fine grain preemption improves latency. That’s not the Adreno 630’s only clever graphics trick.
It also decreases the rest of the areas that fall outside the fovea of vision, and renders the parts of scenes that are in view at a higher resolution, which has the overall effect of decreasing processing overhead.īasically, using eye-tracking sensors, the Adreno 630 GPU’s able to pinpoint where you’re looking in a VR or AR headset render it with progressively less detail outside the viewing region. The company spoke about its Adreno Foveation technology, a tile-based rendering technique that decreases the resolution of areas in scenes that aren’t being viewed. With the Adreno 630 GPU, Qualcomm’s put an outsized focus on virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences.
That should translate to massive improvements in games and graphics-heavy applications, but there’s more to the Adreno 630 under the hood. Here’s the full rundown: The Adreno 630 GPU is about 30 percent faster and 30 percent more power efficient than the Snapdragon 835’s Adreno 540, and has 2.5 times the display throughput. One of the points it emphasized was the new graphics chip, and for good reason: Qualcomm’s Adreno 63 0 GPU is a whopping 30 percent faster than the previous generation. Qualcomm announced the new Snapdragon 845 system-on-chip today at the company’s tech summit in Hawaii.