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← LabAn open GPU driver experiment

PC games on a phone.
On an open driver.

GTA V and Life is Strange: True Colors on a Galaxy S24 FE through GameNative, rendered by an open-source Vulkan driver for its Xclipse 940 GPU. Both clips were filmed on the phone.

Grand Theft Auto V

The prologue, full screen. In the same scene as Samsung’s driver, its 1% lows are 69% higher and it reaches gameplay 34% sooner.

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Life is Strange: True Colors

The first scene, at 21 to 26 FPS. On Samsung’s driver the game stops while it creates its compressed textures.

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GTA V against Samsung’s driver

The same scene, three runs on each driver, with the phone cooled down before every run.

MeasureThis driverSamsung’s
1% low FPS15.08.9
Launch to gameplay133 s200 s
GPU busy55%76%
GPU memory800 MB894 MB
Average FPS31.130.7