Oppo offers a tantalizing demonstration of its ray tracing technology using the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in a smartphone video game. What already promote the Oppo Find X6 Pro.
Qualcomm brings out the heavy artillery introducing the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. The new super-powerful and intelligence-packed chip that will equip a very large part high-end smartphones coming months. There are obviously many privileged partners alongside the American firm. Among them is Oppo. The Chinese manufacturer has pulled out all the stops to offer an impressive demonstration capacities of ray tracing of the new SoC on mobile games.
As a reminder, ray tracing is a technique that simulates the trajectory of light and, above all, its interactions with environments and objects so that the effects of reflection and refraction are as realistic as possible. In an animated film or a video game, this process greatly improves the visual experience. Everything is more beautiful and the immersion is also optimized.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, Oppo et ray tracing
However, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 promises great things in terms of ray tracing management. And to demonstrate this, Oppo has outright developed a scene from a mobile game called “Camp Guard” with “more than 2,000 physical models, 800,000 triangles and nearly 100 textures ».
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In the video above, you can see several comparisons showing the differences in rendering with and without ray tracing enabled.
Camp Guard runs smoothly at 720p 60fps for half an hour on a room temperature device powered by the high-end Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Lights and shadows of in-game characters and objects react realistically to model movement and the player’s camera angle.
The smartphone brand would like to draw your attention to the precision with which shadows are cast, the reflection of light on objects that are not very reflective, or the realism of the sun’s rays in the ripple of the water.
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With this demo, Oppo has two goals. First, it already promotes the future Oppo Find X6 Pro — without naming it so explicitly — which appears in the list of smartphones equipped with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Showing the prowess of the chip allows the manufacturer to show those of its future flagship model.
Also, the Chinese brand highlights its expertise in the development of ray tracing technology. Indeed, with its video, Oppo highlights the performance of its in-house PhysRay Engine 2.0 solution. This is a driver developed in partnership between Oppo and Qualcomm that aims to help developers bring ray tracing to games. It also acts in concert with the Variable Rate Shading (VRS) from Qualcomm to improve “immensely the graphics while solving the problem of power consumption ».
Camp Guard is therefore a perfect opportunity to praise PhysRay Engine 2.0 that Oppo wants to make available to developers to “make ray tracing on mobile more accessible and effective ».
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