During the presentation of the Snapdragon 865 flagship chipset for mobile devices in December 2019, Qualcomm also announced its intention to allow updating drivers for the graphics subsystem of devices based on its processors through Google Play. Today at the Game Developers Summit, Google and Qualcomm reported on the work done in this direction and announced that the Pixel 4 smartphone will be one of the first devices to receive a GPU driver update through Google Play.
Also today, Google showed the Android GPU Inspector tool, which is designed to simplify the creation and optimization of games for its mobile operating system. The tool provides similar information about game rendering stages and GPU load that was previously unavailable. The data received from the Android GPU Inspector can be used by application developers to optimize: increase the frame rate and reduce power consumption.
Google shared an example of how Android GPU Inspector improved a Pixel 4 XL game to be 40% more efficient on GPU resources.
Qualcomm collaborated with Google on the tool due to the prevalence of the Adreno family of GPUs. It is stated that using the Android GPU Inspector, application developers will be able to offer driver fixes directly to the chip manufacturer. Drivers updated with these fixes will be compiled and released as an update available on Google Play. Just like on a PC, these updates will bring new features and performance improvements to the graphics subsystem.
Also during today's event, it was announced that Qualcomm and Google are currently actively working on updated graphics drivers for devices based on the Snapdragon 855 processor, such as Pixel 4, Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note 10. Other devices will receive the updated software later.
Source: 3dnews.ru