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Samsung Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Note 20 collection customers can now set up a devoted app that can improve the efficiency of choose video games on their telephones by standalone GPU driver updates. The Samsung GameDriver app is offered for each Exynos and Qualcomm Snapdragon variations of the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Note 20 fashions. The South Korean firm has solely picked its flagship fashions for the brand new expertise for now, but it surely does have plans to develop the GameDriver app to extra gadgets over time.
To carry the GameDriver app, Samsung has partnered with Google and GPU distributors together with ARM and Qualcomm. “Game Driver provides a new way of updating GPU driver by store and this delivers more stable and better performing GPU driving for the target games,” the corporate mentioned in a submit on the Samsung Developers web site.
Samsung hasn’t launched any gaming smartphones to take on the likes of Asus ROG Phone 3 and Razer Phone 2 which have devoted {hardware} modifications together with particular warmth dissipating system and particular controls for motion video games. The firm, nevertheless, has aggressive gadgets together with the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Note 20 fashions which have the potential to be the primary alternative for players.
But since cellular video games have gotten extra graphic-intensive, Samsung’s new GameDriver app permits the corporate to present enhancements — even with out rolling out full software program updates. In a approach, it is related to how PC players typically replace their GPU drivers. Companies like Nvidia present common updates for his or her graphics processors to carry enhancements and optimisations that are not obtainable by basic software program updates.
But Samsung is just not the primary producer to carry GPU driver updates to smartphones. In March, Qualcomm introduced help for updateable GPU drivers on its Snapdragon SoCs utilizing the Snapdragon Elite Gaming characteristic. It debuted on the Pixel 4 and the Pixel Four XL by a partnership with sure recreation studios. Companies together with Oppo and Xiaomi have additionally supplied a related expertise on their flagships within the current previous.
That mentioned, when you have a Samsung Galaxy S20 or Galaxy Note 20 telephone, you may obtain the Exynos or Qualcomm model of the GameDriver app straight from Google Play retailer. It helps titles together with Black Desert, Fortnite, and Call of Duty: Mobile. However, the record could get up to date within the coming days. Samsung has mentioned that it plans to make the app obtainable to extra gadgets quickly.
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