Mobile games account for an increasing proportion of the entire game industry, and with the launch of various competitive events, mobile games have ushered in a new stage of rapid development. However, the development of mobile games is also inseparable from the support of terminal equipment, the current game mobile phone has begun to take shape, with the continuous upgrading of mobile phone performance, game mobile phone in terms of quality has also been guaranteed.
During the just-concluded Snapdragon Technology Summit, Qualcomm officially launched a new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, the new platform has stronger performance performance, and further optimization for the game, which allows mobile phones equipped with a new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform can have excellent mobile game experience, not only game phones, the future flagship mobile phone can also meet the game needs of high-end players.
Performance Improvement The game screen is smoother
The all-new Snapdragon 8 mobile platform offers more powerful performance, which lays the foundation for an upgrade to the gaming experience.
The new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform is based on Samsung's 4nm process, using ARMV9 instruction set, the CPU has a 3GHz Cortex-X2 super core + three 2.5GHz Cortex-A710 large core + four 1.8GHz Cortex-A510 small cores.
In terms of GPUs, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform uses Adreno GPUs, and the new GPU is 30% faster than the previous generation, while the power consumption of the new Adreno GPUs is reduced by 25% compared with the previous generation.
After testing, the mobile phone Antutu running score equipped with the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform can exceed 1 million points, and the performance of breaking through one million has also brought about a comprehensive upgrade in performance.
In the GPU test, through the GFXBench test results, it can be seen that compared with the previous flagship platform, the frame rate performance of the new generation of Snapdragon 8 is better, which means that the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform will have a smoother performance and a better game experience in the face of complex image processing.
During the Snapdragon Technology Summit, Qualcomm demonstrated the 60 frame rate of "Original God", and the mobile phone based on the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform can stably and smoothly run the 60 frame "Original God", and does not rely on external heat dissipation equipment, such a change is very huge.
Let mobile devices have a game-level game experience
On the PC, we can upgrade the driver and set the parameters for the graphics card in order to better implement the game support. Previously, GPU driver updates have been implemented on the mobile side, and on the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, it has gone a step further and added a GPU control panel, so that gamers can also implement a separate GPU setting on mobile devices such as mobile phones.
In the future, during the game, players can set the GPU setting interface to set frame rate, resolution and other information, and can adjust the performance output of the GPU more targetedly, so as to make the game screen smooth and stable, bringing the game experience at the end game level.
The upgrades brought by the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform are more than that. At the same time, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform also brings new rendering technology, allowing developers to achieve further upgrades to the smoothness of the game while maintaining the picture quality. This technology is Variable Rate Shading Pro, which supports setting the rendering resolution based on screen position, enabling more efficient rendering of large and small pixel groups.
In the game, for the user's focus, the screen is still fully rendered, resulting in higher image quality, while the edge part of the screen is partially rendered to reduce power consumption.
On this basis, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform also brings Adreno image motion engine technology, by using historical frame data and GPU optimization motion estimation, games that support this feature can generate more frames, allowing games to run at double frame rate, while maintaining nearly the same power consumption, in the future we can experience more high frame rate game content.
Smoke is a picture that will appear in many game scenes, but in fact, it is more difficult to render smoke, and the effect of smoke in the end game is significantly better than that of the mobile game. The new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform adds stereoscopic rendering technology, with the help of this technology, it can improve the rendering effect of particle graphics and make the smoke effect on the mobile end more realistic.
To sum up, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform for the game to bring about three main aspects, the first is to have a more professional independent GPU control interface, the second is to improve the game frame rate, the third is to bring better picture quality performance, under the blessing of these three aspects, the mobile game experience will be greatly improved, developers based on the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform can also bring higher quality game works.
It's not just game phones Qualcomm that also brings game handhelds
With the help of the Snapdragon platform, the current game mobile phone has become an important market segment in the mobile phone field, and the differentiated game experience has also made the game phone win the love of many gamers. Now, Qualcomm has brought new expectations for gamers, that is, game handhelds.
Game handhelds are not much to choose from at present, with qualcomm launched the 1st generation of Snapdragon G3x game platform, the future game handheld will also usher in a period of rapid development. The 1st Generation Snapdragon G3x gaming platform is purpose-built for gaming handhelds and will provide advanced performance and excellent network connectivity for gaming handhelds.
The Snapdragon G3x game platform will support all Snapdragon Elite Gaming technology, which means that the game optimization and new technologies of the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platforms we introduced earlier will also appear in the Snapdragon G3x game platform, and the future game handheld based on snapdragon G3x will also get a flagship game experience.
Now when we use handhelds, we need to connect to WiFi, and the Snapdragon G3x game platform supports Qualcomm FastConnect 6900 mobile connection system, supporting Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E networks; at the same time, it also realizes support for 5G millimeter wave and Sub-6GHz, which can achieve low latency and high-speed upload and download. A gaming device has the 5G connectivity of a top-of-the-line mobile phone, which is also an advantage that all game handhelds do not have today.
Snapdragon G3x game platform supports Snapdragon Sound Snapdragon listening technology, which can bring players low latency, more stable audio performance, in the game process players can judge the position through footsteps, but also can get a more immersive game experience.
In the future, on the Snapdragon G3x game platform, you can not only play high-quality Android games, but also play Xbox cloud games and Steam remote play services under the blessing of high-speed networks, so as to enjoy high-quality game services anytime and anywhere.
At present, Qualcomm has teamed up with Razer to create a handheld game device development kit based on the 1st generation of Snapdragon G3x game platform, through the development kit, developers will better develop game content for the Snapdragon G3x game platform. The kit also shows us the prototype of the device of the future Snapdragon G3x gaming platform.
Not only for games, the future based on the Snapdragon G3x game platform equipment can also be used for live broadcasting, to Razer development kit as an example, the kit is equipped with a 5 million pixel webcam and two microphones, support shooting 1080P 60FPS video, players can play the game screen live, game streamers will be more convenient during live broadcasting.
summary
Compared with previous years, mobile games have been greatly improved in terms of picture quality and experience, thanks to the upgrading of mobile games, but also promoted the development of mobile e-sports ecology, with the continuous optimization of the game on the Snapdragon platform, many gamers will also get a better game experience.
The prospects in the field of mobile games are very broad, at present, in addition to game mobile phones, Qualcomm has also begun to get involved in the field of handhelds, providing players with more abundant game equipment, and playing AAA masterpieces anytime, anywhere will also become a reality.