hydroGEN to Android@lemdro.idEnglish • 1 year agoTested: Snapdragon-powered Android phones just got a lot faster at ray tracingwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up144file-text
arrow-up144external-linkTested: Snapdragon-powered Android phones just got a lot faster at ray tracingwww.androidauthority.comhydroGEN to Android@lemdro.idEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
Android Authority: 3DMark’s benchmarking suite has launched its first ray tracing test and we’ve run it on a bunch of phones
minus-square@giant_smeeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoThe 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
minus-square@giant_smeeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoOf course. But it’s still an absolute physical trade off. There is only so much die space and power budget or cost. They will have traded something off.
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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
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Of course. But it’s still an absolute physical trade off. There is only so much die space and power budget or cost. They will have traded something off.