Samsung has been making high-end tablets for years. In recent years, it has used Qualcomm's flagship chips in those devices. However, things might change with the Galaxy Tab S10.
Reports claim that Samsung could use high-end MediaTek chips in its upcoming tablets, and it could make them great for gaming with added help from ARM's new technology.
ARM's Accuracy Super Resolution (ASR) could increase gaming frame rate on Galaxy Tab S10
It was revealed that the Galaxy Tab S10 might use the MediaTek Dimensity 9300+ processor. This chip already features a really powerful GPU, and ARM's new technology could make it even better for gaming. ARM announced a new upscaling technology called Accuracy Super Resolution (ASR) that can make games look better and smoother. It could also help improve the device's battery life while playing games.
ASR is based on AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (FSR 2), a temporal upscaling technology that works on PC games and makes games look good while boosting frame rates. ARM says its ASR upscaling technology will be available to game developers under the MIT open-source license.
This new technology was tested on a device with the MediaTek Dimensity 9300 (Immortalis -G720 MC12 GPU) and a 2,800 x 1,260 pixels screen resolution. The image below shows how ARM's ASR performs compared to other upscaling technologies, including AMD's FSR 2 and Qualcomm's Game Super Resolution (GSR).
ARM also said that rendering games at 540p resolution and upscaling to 1080p could save up to 30% power on mobile devices. The graph below compares the power consumption of native vs upscaled rendering. This test was also done on a device featuring the Dimensity 9300 chip.
Since the Galaxy Tab S10 lineup is expected to use the overclocked version of the Dimensity 9300, games that use ARM's ASR technology could offer smoother gaming and longer battery life on Samsung's upcoming high-end tablets. A Samsung executive recently claimed that the Galaxy Tab S10 would be released before the end of this year.
With great 120Hz Super AMOLED screens and exceptional quad-speakers generally found on high-end Galaxy tablets, the Galaxy Tab S10 could turn out to be an excellent gaming device.
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Samsung seems interested in using chips from multiple brands in its mobile ecosystem. It already uses MediaTek chips in its entry-level and mid-range phones, but its high-end devices only use its in-house Exynos chips and Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips. It would be interesting to see MediaTek's chips used in Samsung's high-end tablets this year.
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