Chapter 101 GPU Driver Architecture (Ch 829563182)

“This is……”
The testing team of the small factory in Zhuhai looked at the driver patch package sent by Huateng Semiconductor with curious looks on their faces.
The test results of the two chips, Xuanwu 900 and Xuanwu 800, made the small Zhuhai factory very satisfied.
After more than a week of debugging, the small Zhuhai factory has basically mastered the debugging and optimization of the two chips.
The small Zhuhai factory has been debugging MediaTek for a long time, which has enabled it to have a very strong debugging level for the public version of the CPU and GPU architecture.
And because the manufacturing process and peripheral configuration of the Xuanwu processor chip are far stronger than MediaTek’s processor chip, this also makes the software debugging team of the small factory in Zhuhai much less worried.
However, when the small factory in Zhuhai had already fully adjusted the chip, Huateng Semiconductor specifically packaged and transmitted the drivers for the processor chips.
“HuaTeng GPU core driver architecture 1.0! Dedicated to small factories in Zhuhai!”
Looking at this packaged file, members of the software debugging team also showed a hint of doubt in their eyes.
In order to understand the role of this driver, Zhou Yunlong, head of the software debugging department, contacted the software team of Huateng Semiconductor as soon as possible.
During this period, the relationship between the small Zhuhai factory and Huateng Semiconductor was very close, whenever there were problems with chip debugging.
Small factories in Zhuhai can directly contact Huateng Semiconductor’s software team so that both parties can work together to solve the problem.
This also saves the software debugging team a lot of effort in the daily debugging process.
After all, discussing and cooperating with the chip R&D team is much better than working alone behind closed doors.
When our team was debugging the Fire Dragon 660 processor chip in the first half of the year, we encountered a problem and contacted the Fire Dragon party, but the other party ignored us.
Huateng Semiconductor’s attitude is much better than Gaotong’s.
After more than ten minutes of communication, the chip debugging team finally understood the function of this driver, but they were also skeptical about what Huateng Semiconductor said.
“Hua Teng Semiconductor said that this driver can greatly improve the performance of GPU processor chips without increasing power consumption too much!”
When Zhou Yunlong told everyone in the team the news, the team’s R&D personnel all showed disbelief in their eyes.
You should know that the GPU currently used by Huateng Semiconductor is a public version GPU, and the upper limit of the public version GPU is already there.
Huateng Semiconductor can significantly improve the performance of processor chips with just a driver, which also caused doubts in the R&D team present.
“We’ll know once we give it a try. If we can really do this, it will be a great thing!”
Although Zhou Yunlong had some doubts in his heart, he knew that he had no say until this technology was used.
Of course, if this technology is true, then the overall performance of the company’s Basalt processor chip will be greatly improved.
The GPU driver architecture provided by Huateng Semiconductor this time is actually a semi-finished product that has been developed halfway.
Ever since the company’s software team has been conducting in-depth research and development on new technologies, the difficulty of research and development has increased as time goes by.
Until now, the company has only been able to develop Chen Tong’s technical language to Lv7 level.
Even though it is Lv7’s GPU-driven technology, it is much stronger than most current GPU technologies.
This technology is bound to surprise the small factory in Zhuhai that cooperates with Huateng Semiconductor.
Soon the relevant test results appeared in front of Zhou Yunlong. Looking at the test results in front of him, an incredible expression appeared on Zhou Yunlong’s face.
This time, the GPU driver technology has a total of two different debugging gears, and the effects of the two different debugging gears are also different.
The Manhattan 3.1 test result of the Xuanwu 900 series itself is 65.0fps, and its maximum power consumption is 4.2W!
The first-level test result with the support of GPU driver directly reached 74.0fps, the overall GPU performance increased by 13.7%, and its maximum power consumption was only 4.6W.
The overall performance increased by 13.7%, but the average power consumption increased by only 8.3%.
You should know that if you want to improve the performance of a general processor chip, you will need to consume more power.
However, with the support of this driver, a higher performance improvement is achieved at the expense of extremely low power consumption.
The improvement in the second level is even more terrifying, reaching 84.0fps in the Manhattan 3.1 test.
It directly increased from 65.0 to 84.0fps, and the GPU performance increased by 39.2%!
A terrifying 39.2%, which is almost the level of a processor chip generation.
However, the extreme power consumption performance has been directly increased from the original 4.2W to 5.8W, and the overall average power consumption has basically increased by 37.1%.
Compared with the energy efficiency ratio of the first level, although the second level greatly improves the performance of the GPU, it is obviously not as good as the first level in terms of energy efficiency ratio.
“The first gear of the GPU driver can be used as a normal gaming mode. Without the driver turned on, it is suitable for daily use. The second gear is more suitable for extreme gaming!”
Zhou Yunlong quickly identified three different ways GPUs are currently used in daily life.
Under the condition of low negative pressure on the GPU, the mode with the best energy consumption ratio curve is still the mode without driver. Obviously, it is best not to turn on the driver in daily use mode.
Under medium and high load conditions, the first gear drive can achieve higher performance and the energy consumption ratio curve is also the best.
As for the second gear, it completely exchanges higher power consumption for stronger performance. This mode is very suitable for extreme negative pressure conditions.
As for the Xuanwu 800, it was also tested, and the test results were basically the same as those of the Xuanwu 900.
When the Xuanwu 800 is in the first gear driving mode, the test score is directly upgraded from 46.0 to 54.0, and the maximum power consumption is also upgraded from 3.5W to 3.75W.
GPU performance increased by 14.1%, while power consumption only increased by 7.4%.
In the second gear, the frame rate directly reached 62.0, and the maximum power consumption was increased to 4.9W.
This result has brought a more direct improvement in the overall performance of the original Xuanwu 800 processor chip!
You should know that the original Xuanwu 800 processor chip is positioned as a mid-range processor, but with the support of the latest GPU driver, its performance has changed a lot.
The original performance of Xuanwu 800 was slightly behind that of Huolong 845, the CPU was slightly stronger than Huolong 845, and the GPU was slightly stronger than Huolong 835.
The performance is slightly behind that of the Huolong 845, but relying on the powerful peripheral configuration comparable to that of a flagship, the Xuanwu 800 can basically compete head-on with the Huolong 845.
Use mid-range chips to compete with flagship chips!
But now with the support of GPU driver, the GPU of Xuanwu 800, which lagged behind that of Huolong 845, has instantly surpassed Huolong 845 in performance.
With the support of the second stage of the driver, the GPU performance is even 2.4% stronger than that of the Fire Dragon 845.
At the same time, in terms of GPU performance and power consumption curve under this mode, the Xuanwu 800 is slightly stronger than the Huolong 845.
In extreme performance mode, power consumption is 3% lower, and in mid-to-low-end situations with the same performance, power consumption is 6% lower.
And in this mode, the comprehensive performance test of CPU and GPU is 5% stronger than that of Fire Dragon 845.
It truly achieved the goal of suppressing Gaotong’s flagship chip this year with its mid-range chip!