Review: Huawei's GPU Turbo update

28 July 2018
Join us for some in-depth testing of Huawei's new GPU Turbo technology.

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  • Anonymous
  • UD{
  • 29 Jul 2018

AnonD-594740, 29 Jul 2018Sounds more like just a driver update with specific optimiz... moreExactly what it is!

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    • AnonD-594740
    • LvJ
    • 29 Jul 2018

    Sounds more like just a driver update with specific optimization for X title.

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      • Anonymous
      • UD{
      • 29 Jul 2018

      Walter C. Dornez, 29 Jul 2018Yes, indeed. So much hate for it before it launched and now... morePeople weren't hating but we're skeptical of the claim and who wouldn't be??? With such big numbers thrown your going to have some doubts I mean . And now with the beta version out people now have an idea what its like and its not something new. Basically the improvement is something based subjectively with a big DISCLAIMER about the actual results and difference.

        Luxor, 29 Jul 2018Enough said. This is good development. Yes, indeed. So much hate for it before it launched and now people are saying is nothing new

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          • Luxor
          • tVv
          • 29 Jul 2018

          Enough said. This is good development.

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            • Anonymous
            • kxg
            • 29 Jul 2018

            Shui8, 28 Jul 2018S9+ is a $1000 device, Honor 10 is $400. Now u do the math.I did the math. And I found that both cost almost nothing for me.

              So its an old technique, using some of the vast cpu capability sitting spare to optimise the work the gpu is asked to do and therefore make devices more efficient, which is always handy..but doesn't really solve the problem of having massively over-powered cpu's doing very basic tasks, even using big little etc tech, all that grunt and power draw is used for is tiny increases in overall speed but at the price of power draw...

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                • Anonymous
                • GRM
                • 28 Jul 2018

                Huaweiband Samsung must make their own or like Apple iOS, it's really a shame, sick a powerful hardware is made to run on an inefficient OpenGL Based Emulator OS

                Looking forward to KirinOS and Proper Tizen OS

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                  • r33fd
                  • mEA
                  • 28 Jul 2018

                  So it's not quite a marketing gimmick,
                  But is a lot less useful than advertised.

                    So it is Total AI artificial Inteligent Managaemnt .
                    so
                    Call AI Turbo GPU by huwaie

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                      • Anonymous
                      • dM}
                      • 28 Jul 2018

                      To me itak kind of looks like Vulkan render or object occlusion rendering on desktop GPU.


                      Vulkan as software efficiency bind to metal layer, culling for less objects to render.


                      Nice to see up to 2x less power usage, didn't expect that.. it just proves how inefficient opengl is on mobile.

                      More needs to be used with vulkan + this GPU tech, or just implemented in api by default.

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                        • AnonD-558092
                        • r7b
                        • 28 Jul 2018

                        Shui8, 28 Jul 2018This is good stuff. New findings on technologies. And then ... moreThat's not a new finding. This is tech from the 90's, exactly it's speculative execution which was introduced by Intel on P6 processors. That's also what made possible Spectre and Meltdown security flaws exist.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • UD{
                          • 28 Jul 2018

                          I don't see every developer on board with this. I mean the amount of resources to pour in just a small incremental boost. You have to end up re-writing a portion of your game code for a bit more FPS. If you ask me I wouldn't pour any resources at it because the better the actual GPU is the better experience right the consumers would figure it out by them selves??? or its just me.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • GRM
                            • 28 Jul 2018

                            .alpha, 28 Jul 2018This is also why gaming on iPhones are so much smoother tha... moreExactly, Samsung so and iPhone X runs mostly same fps, but my iPhone X drops almost no frames whole playing Gangstar

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                              • Shui8
                              • KZ8
                              • 28 Jul 2018

                              This is good stuff. New findings on technologies. And then applied to almost all their previous flagship phones. Job done.

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                                • ytx
                                • 28 Jul 2018

                                This is also why gaming on iPhones are so much smoother than gaming on the latest Android phones. There is less dip on iPhone then Android and it is usually the dip that let you notice the same isn't running smoothly

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                                  • Shui8
                                  • KZ8
                                  • 28 Jul 2018

                                  Anonymous, 28 Jul 2018My s9+ gets 60fps constantlyS9+ is a $1000 device, Honor 10 is $400. Now u do the math.

                                    Impressive the only downside I see is developer support we all know Huawei is not popular among developers if Adreno Turbo materializes it will be much much more wider adopted

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                                      • AnonD-558092
                                      • r7b
                                      • 28 Jul 2018

                                      So GPU Turbo is nothing more than Branch Prediction applied to GPUs? The fact that it's proprietary (except if they licensed it from Qualcomm's Adreno boost, which would make sense) means adoption will be fairly (s)low

                                        Kudos to Huawei!!! Nowadays innovation is very rare.