- iQOO has introduced its ‘Q3’ cell gaming chip
- That is the world’s first to help full-scene ray tracing
- It is going to be included within the upcoming iQOO 15 handset
iQOO isn’t a model we speak about a lot, however this Vivo-owned firm has simply introduced one thing that might remodel the smartphone gaming panorama.
The firm has unveiled its new self-developed Q3 gaming chip, which is designed to work alongside a telephone’s processor to offer gaming a lift. Described as a “cell graphics card” this isn’t one thing we see in lots of telephones, although it’s the third technology of ‘Q’ chip from the corporate, so not a very new thought.
The Q3 although sounds particularly spectacular, with iQOO claiming it’s the “just one within the business to help full-scene ray tracing, tremendous decision, and tremendous body charges.”
Ray tracing can be utilized to enhance reflections and different lighting results, however thus far on cell in case your telephone helps ray tracing in any respect, it can solely be utilized in sure components of the scene. With full-scene ray tracing, mild physics are extra precisely simulated throughout the entire scene.
Tremendous decision in the meantime is an AI-powered approach for upscaling decrease decision visuals, and tremendous body charges merely means very excessive body charges. So if the Q3 is able to all that it might dramatically increase the visuals and efficiency of smartphone video games.
You will want an iQOO telephone to get this iQOO chip
In fact, you’ll want a handset with this graphics chip in it, and thus far solely the iQOO 15 has been introduced as together with it.
This telephone isn’t out but, however iQOO has already revealed that it’s going to have a 6.85-inch QHD display with a 144Hz refresh fee, and because of an early Geekbench itemizing (by way of GSMArena) we additionally know that it ought to have a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset and 16GB of RAM (although different configurations could also be out there as properly).
That chipset is the following technology on from the Snapdragon 8 Elite discovered within the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S25 collection, and together with the Q3 chip it delivers spectacular outcomes right here, with a single-core rating of three,824 and a multi-core rating of 12,402.
That’s an identical single-core outcome to what you’d get with an iPhone 17 Professional Max, however it’s a far increased multi-core rating, and each scores have present Android telephones beat.
Leaks additionally counsel that the iQOO 15 might have a large 7,000mAh battery and a trio of 50MP cameras, so whereas it is a area of interest model within the west, it’s one which is likely to be price listening to.
