Samsung is galvanizing one of its user interfaces by Vulkanizing it. We’re seeing the company put the Vulkan API to good use on the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge already — how fitting that these two devices are the first in Android to support it.If you don’t know what Vulkan is, it’s a tool that will get graphically-intensive processes running on ...
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Android gamers already have access to some top-shelf titles and blazingly fast hardware to enjoy them on, but the future promises even bigger, better things. Back in August Google gave us a heads-up about where some of its efforts were going, talking about plans to support the cross-platform open Vulkan API in a future Android release. While Vulkan itself is still in development, it’s chock full of potential, and promises to give devs the low-latency access they need to system hardware in order to deliver some ...
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Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon 820 SoC has been official for a long time now, but so far the company’s been light on details about the chip, only providing some brief “preview” data. Ever since, we’ve been looking to get the full picture on this component, and rumors had suggested that answers might come this week. Well, the rumored August 11 date passed by without any new 820 info, but it turns out that was ...
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Graphics performance hinges on a lot of factors, from memory layout to rendering pipelines, but for many concerns, it all comes down to speed: rendering a beautiful, high-res scene is relatively simple when you have all the time in the world, but doing it dozens of times a second requires a lot of horsepower. As a result, anything graphics systems can do to decrease overhead, and get things working as quickly as possible, is going to be hugely important for squeezing out as much performance as you can get from any particular hardware. Last year
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