This year Game Developers Conference (GDC 2015) is going to be held in San Francisco, CA, United States on March 2nd. Yesterday in one of the session “Sustained Gaming Performance in Multi-Core Mobile Devices” at GDC 2015 Microsoft has revealed that Windows 10 phones and tablets with octacore CPUs and having very powerful GPUs are coming soon. Octo-core CPUs are already very common in Android eco-system and it will be soon supported in Windows 10 devices too.
Session Description:
Modern mobile devices and smartphones are reaching the computing capabilities reserved until recently for desktop PCs. Windows 10 phones and tablets with 8 CPUs and very powerful GPUs are expected soon. Despite significant progress in reducing power consumption these devices are able to draw more power under sustained load than can be safely dissipated with current passive cooling technologies. Windows 10 and the hardware it runs on are designed to safely handle such situations, mostly by reducing the system performance – which could affect game-play negatively. Learn to counter this effect by designing games that achieve sustained thermal-to-quality tradeoffs in these systems.
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