I wonder how far or how good Mali is now compared to others. I wish Chip and Cheese do compassion on GPU as well.
Unless it is a Pixel or Samsung Sxy flagship device, chances are the driver, which will never get updated, it a box full of interesting developer moments.
Just go to chrome://gpu to check the amount of workarounds enabled in Chrome alone.
thank you, will be using this, it’s far more accurate than simply throwing the devs under the bus and ignoring all the unspoken context of said moments, while not papering over the… interesting developer moments.
It's depressing how bad the drivers are. They have 0 market pressure to improve the quality, unlike PC where the whiniest group on the internet (gamers on reddit) will crucify you for driver problems. I've spent too much time investigating and implementing workarounds. Though it does pay my bills...
Other Samsung devices aren't so lucky.
PC drivers are equally as bad when using laptops by the way.
While you can try to use the plain drivers from Intel, AMD and NVidia, usually the ones in the laptops have custom changes made by the OEM for the laptop motherboard design, and you can get into issues like thermal handling, when not using the drivers provided by the OEM update services.
Example benchmark showing how extremely far Google is behind:
GeekBench 6 Compute Score (GPU):
Xring O3. 36901. (the GPU in this announcement)
Snapdragon 8 Elite G5 27501. (Adreno 840)
Dimensity 9500M. 23753. (Mali-G1 Ultra MP11).
Tensor G6. 6216. (PowerVR CXTP-48-1536)And then Google has the gall to charge basically flagship prices for their under powered junk.
Personally I don't buy flagship phones because I don't use their full compute capabilities anyway, but a Pixel 11 would cost 2x what I paid for my Pixel 8. For 0 GPU performance improvement.
Then Samsung got the message, ran with it, and Google went "Ehh, we're good now."
I just can't wait to see it being tested in an actual phone. So far all the data are done on development board. If they are really as good as everything we have read so far, both Mediatek and Qualcomm are in big trouble.