Galaxy Note 10, Galaxy S10 phones to get GPU driver updates soon

Last updated: March 26th, 2020 at 09:54 UTC+01:00

Last twelvemonth, Qualcomm had announced that it would bring updatable GPU drivers to Android smartphones, with assistance from Google. At the Snapdragon Summit 2019, the company appear updatable GPU drivers for the Snapdragon 765, Snapdragon 855, Snapdragon 855+, and the Snapdragon 865 as a part of Snapdragon Elite Gaming. Now, Google has introduced a new GPU inspector tool for Android smartphones, including the ones from Samsung.

The GPU Inspector is a graphics profiling tool from Google that allows game developers to improve the functioning of their games by calculation tweaks to the code. These tweaks tin then exist pushed to smartphones straight through OTA updates via the Play Store. The new tool supports GPUs from both ARM and Qualcomm, and the initial list of supported Samsung phones include the Galaxy Note 10, Milky way Note 10+, Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10, and the Galaxy S10+.

Qualcomm says that new optimizations tin push the gaming performance of some games past every bit much as xl percentage and fifty-fifty ameliorate battery life while gaming. Google and Qualcomm are already collaborating with game studios like Blizzard Entertainment and Gameloft, and the first updates are expected to arrive by the end of this yr.

We wait both Exynos and Snapdragon variants of Galaxy Note 10 and Milky way S10 series smartphones to receive these GPU driver updates. Google has also promised to release GPU driver updates to a lot more phones in the coming months. Nosotros expect the Galaxy S20 series, Milky way Fold, and the Galaxy Z Flip to receive OTA GPU commuter updates likewise.

Android Smartphone GPU Drivers Updates