Huawei's CPU Turbo: what does it do?

31 July 2018
CPU Turbo debuts with the Huawei Honor Note 10, though we assume that it will be delivered as an update to other Kirin 970/960 phones.

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Huawei is king of gimmicks with ridiculous marketing claims. It was already exposed by GSM Arena that Gpu turbo is barely any improvement and only supported by measly few games, expect similar stuff with cpu turbo, any company has some kind of cpu and gpu management algorithms so yeah Huawei are nothing special, just marketing hype for nothing, move along.

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    GuillermoCesar, 01 Aug 2018Finally turbo technology in mobile phones. Now I can brag I... moreLol

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      • 01 Aug 2018

      why, 31 Jul 2018why do you need it?the 950 dont have the fast chipset and t... moreSo you didnt read the part where it said can be use on desktop-grade software with Huawei PC mode.

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        Anonymous, 31 Jul 2018Huawei is the only one innovating out of the top 3. whats a... moreOther brand dont need to do anything. Huawei is doing it only because they use their own Kirin chipset. Qualcomm already doing the Adreno Turbo GPU thing. I bet they will do a Snapdragon Turbo CPU after seeing this. This all can be implemented in every smartphone running snapdragon.

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          • Anonymous
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          • 01 Aug 2018

          This sounds like an overclock so I doubt it will come to other phones without the liquid cooling. I wonder if gaming in the pc mode will be good?

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            • 01 Aug 2018

            Finally turbo technology in mobile phones. Now I can brag I have turbo tech in my car (Audi), turbo tech in my smartphone (thanks Huawei) and turbo tech in my pants (Viagra). My life is sooo turbocharged!!!

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              • 9LT
              • 31 Jul 2018

              Anonymous, 31 Jul 2018Huawei is the only one innovating out of the top 3. whats a... moreinnovating by copying the notch and removing the headphone jack?

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                • 31 Jul 2018

                Anonymous, 31 Jul 2018Huawei is the only one innovating out of the top 3. whats a... moremaking better software and not a gimmick?

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                  • Anonymous
                  • mx{
                  • 31 Jul 2018

                  Huawei is the only one innovating out of the top 3. whats apple and sammy doing??

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                    • 31 Jul 2018

                    GingerVroomVroom, 31 Jul 2018So basically what OnePlus do when you run a Benchmark app? Kinda, but its actually useful in ur daily tasks

                      There's nothing new, we know that most smartphone's cpu are already overclock ready since years ago.

                      Or even worst, they're actually underclocked it on normal mode (also its spec sheet are also shows the underclocked frequency so we don't know).

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                        • 31 Jul 2018

                        Walter C. Dornez, 31 Jul 2018I mean, did they say that they made something new?They called it a new name, therefore to the ignorant 90% or so of consumers it's something new.
                        Also the GPU Turbo is again not magic (their claim of "60% performance gain w/ 30% power conservation" is essentially magic) but requires specific optimizations from software devs on every compatible implementation. I didn't see "Optimized for Geforce" being marketed as some sort of "turbo" or some other misleading hyperbole. Their Mali is just everybody else's Mali.

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                          Shanti Dope, 31 Jul 2018I'm definitely wrong on this one, but I believe that heat w... moreYou're right, in that you're wrong on this. The materials have very low specific heat capacity and heat pipes are used to conduct heat elsewhere to be dispersed, not stored.

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                            Phones already throttles a lot, and Huawei wants to increase the clocks more?

                            Oh deer xD

                              AnonD-754421, 31 Jul 2018Right, just give new names to existing concepts and call it... moreI mean, did they say that they made something new?

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                                • 31 Jul 2018

                                Right, just give new names to existing concepts and call it a day. Huawei's yet to prove GPU Turbo's not just some implementation of Vulkan.

                                  Anonymous, 31 Jul 2018heat pipes are nice and all, but... where does it go? smart... moreNice idea of monitoring app and heat pipe I think spreads the heat all over the body so no overheating single component

                                    Anonymous, 31 Jul 2018heat pipes are nice and all, but... where does it go? smart... moreI'm definitely wrong on this one, but I believe that heat will be handled by the heat pipes on their own, and will only release heat once the CPU stops and starts to also cool down.
                                    They basically act like storage of heat, which enables the CPU to have longer throttling point.

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                                      GingerVroomVroom, 31 Jul 2018So basically what OnePlus do when you run a Benchmark app? Lol yeah but Oneplus doesnt have cooler heat pipes and big battery to keep it for long term usage. So the idea is working.

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                                        • 31 Jul 2018

                                        why do you need it?the 950 dont have the fast chipset and turbo gpu but it perforns well through continuum. i can accept this doings if it can play pc games.