Xiaomi and Qualcomm partner up for Game Turbo, offers GPU and graphics tweaking: Report

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With mobile gaming becoming a bigger phenomenon day by day, various OEMs have recognized the market and are building their smartphones with gaming optimizations in mind. One would usually hear something like GPU Turbo or other enhancing techniques and it seems that Xiaomi and Qualcomm are also working on launching their own iteration of the same.

According to a recent Tweet by known leakster Ice Universe, the Chinese tech giant and the known chipmaker have partnered up to develop Game Turbo. It is a new unique feature that is said to arrive in the Mi 10 Pro+ and was co-developed by Xiaomi and Qualcomm’s GPU teams. This new software will help mobile gamers enhance their gaming experience by giving them a degree of control that is generally found in PC gaming.

In other words, apart from just boosting your smartphone’s performance, users can also tweak various graphical settings like Anti-Aliasing, Anisotropic Filtering, and even Texture Filtering. Looking at the images shared in the tweet, Game Turbo also offers free control over the GPU’s parameters, letting users adjust the GPU frequency. So, one can tweak not only the device but the game they are playing, which is something no OEM has offered before.

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Xiaomi Mi 10 Pro

Furthermore, the images also reveal different GPU performance profiles, which are saved under default, save power, balanced, high quality, and a custom profile as well. These are quite similar to PC gaming’s NVIDIA control panel, which also offers the ability to customize multiple in game settings. The controls also seem streamlined and clutter free, so it should be easy to navigate for even a beginner.