Android Authority: 3DMark’s benchmarking suite has launched its first ray tracing test and we’ve run it on a bunch of phones

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    1 year ago

    This is not a feature that a device with limited available power to consume needs. It’s just dumb.

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      1 year ago

      I disagree. I use my old phone exclusively as a gaming device. If it needs power, I plug it in. The better graphics it can handle, the better

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        1 year ago

        So you believe it needs it as a standard feature even though gaming phones that it’s more appropriate for are a thing?

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          1 year ago

          I think it should be a standard feature that game developers are able to take advantage of if they would like to.

          I don’t think you are going to accidentally stumble upon any mobile games that have raytracing anytime soon and wonder why your battery is draining

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        1 year ago

        The only argument you can really have is about die space. If fixed function hardware is on die for ray tracing.

        The chip could be cheaper or have a larger rasterization GPU block, AV1 encode block etc etc

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            1 year ago

            Of course. But it’s still an absolute physical trade off. There is only so much die space and power budget or cost. They will have traded something off.

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      1 year ago

      This is not a feature that a device with limited available power to consume needs.

      I don’t disagree, but I’m not sure that that is the long-run game.

      I think that many of us consider Android to be a supplemental platform to a “heavyweight” computing platform, like Linux, MacOS, or Windows.

      My understanding is that an increasing number of younger people don’t know how to use those platforms. Just a smartphone platform.

      And I see attempts to shift towards heavier-weight Android devices.

      It may be that the aim here is to move towards larger Android devices.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think we’ll be using dedicated hardware for these work loads for very long.

      FPGAs will likely phone several tasks such as encryption, ray tracing, ml, etc.

      That said I would very much like raytracing in my phone as it is the lowest barrier of entry for VR/AR which could benefit from raytracing.