Samsung Brings a Devoted App to Reinforce Gaming on Its Android Flagships

Samsung Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Be aware 20 sequence customers can now set up a devoted app that may improve the efficiency of choose video games on their telephones thru standalone GPU driving force updates. The Samsung GameDriver app is to be had for each Exynos and Qualcomm Snapdragon variations of the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Be aware 20 fashions. The South Korean corporate has most effective picked its flagship fashions for the brand new revel in for now, but it surely does have plans to amplify the GameDriver app to further gadgets over the years.

To carry the GameDriver app, Samsung has partnered with Google and GPU distributors together with ARM and Qualcomm. “Recreation Motive force supplies a brand new approach of updating GPU driving force by way of retailer and this delivers extra solid and higher acting GPU riding for the objective video games,” the corporate mentioned in a submit at the Samsung Builders web page.

Samsung hasn’t introduced any gaming smartphones to take at the likes of Asus ROG Telephone three and Razer Telephone 2 that experience devoted {hardware} adjustments together with particular warmth dissipating machine and particular controls for motion video games. The corporate, on the other hand, has aggressive gadgets together with the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Be aware 20 fashions that experience the possible to be the primary selection for avid gamers.

However since cellular video games are turning into extra graphic-intensive, Samsung’s new GameDriver app permits the corporate to supply enhancements — even with out rolling out complete instrument updates. In some way, it is very similar to how PC avid gamers continuously replace their GPU drivers. Firms like Nvidia supply common updates for his or her graphics processors to carry enhancements and optimisations that don’t seem to be to be had thru common instrument updates.

However Samsung isn’t the primary producer to carry GPU driving force updates to smartphones. In March, Qualcomm introduced fortify for updateable GPU drivers on its Snapdragon SoCs the usage of the Snapdragon Elite Gaming function. It debuted at the Pixel four and the Pixel four XL thru a partnership with sure recreation studios. Firms together with Oppo and Xiaomi have additionally presented a an identical revel in on their flagships within the contemporary previous.

That mentioned, if in case you have a Samsung Galaxy S20 or Galaxy Be aware 20 telephone, you’ll be able to obtain the Exynos or Qualcomm model of the GameDriver app at once from Google Play retailer. It helps titles together with Black Desolate tract, Fortnite, and Name of Accountability: Cellular. Then again, the record might get up to date within the coming days. Samsung has mentioned that it plans to make the app to be had to extra gadgets quickly.

Is that this the tip of the Samsung Galaxy Be aware sequence as we comprehend it? We mentioned this on Orbital, our weekly era podcast, which you’ll be able to subscribe to by means of Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or RSS, obtain the episode, or simply hit the play button beneath.