Tested: Snapdragon-powered Android phones just got a lot faster at ray tracing - eviltoast

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

      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.