Galaxy Note 10, Galaxy S10 phones to get GPU driver updates soon
Last year, Qualcomm had announced that it would bring updatable GPU drivers to Android smartphones, with help from Google. At the Snapdragon Summit 2019, the company announced 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 performance of their games by adding tweaks to the code. These tweaks can then be pushed to smartphones directly 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, Galaxy Note 10+, Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10, and the Galaxy S10+.
Qualcomm says that new optimizations can push the gaming performance of some games by as much as 40 percent and even improve 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 year.
We expect both Exynos and Snapdragon variants of Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy 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. We expect the Galaxy S20 series, Galaxy Fold, and the Galaxy Z Flip to receive OTA GPU driver updates as well.
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when will we receive the update to the note 10 plus?
Never buy exynos again😝
“We expect both Exynos and Snapdragon variants of Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy S10 series smartphones to receive these GPU driver updates.”
The article only mentions that only SD has updatable GPU driver.
Does Exynos also support updatable gpu driver?
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Nevermind: ARM = Exynos.
They only mention Adreno GPU upgrade and not Mali that is in our Exynos variants. So we want to know if exynos is once more inferior for users that payed the same if not more amount of money to get their devices! Samsung must stop this 2 processor policy which is unfair for their customers!
Exynos uses Mali GPUs from ARM, and they’re supported. Google’s website says ARM Mali GPUs are supported, so those phones will see updatable GPU drivers as well. Basically, expect most Samsung phones (both Snapdragon and Exynos variants) to get updates.
