The latest phone to come from Huaweis sub-brand Honor is the Honor Play, so-called because of its emphasis on gaming.
With an ever-growing market for gaming PCs and laptops, gaming phones are becoming more widespread.
Razer brought out the high-powered Razer Phone, and Asus unveiled its ROG phone earlier this year.
Honor is trying to match them with its new Play handset, and thanks to its GPU Turbo technology, it might just do it for a fraction of the price.GPU Turbo is a technology that allows the handsets graphics processor to deliver top quality performance, but much more efficiently.
Essentially, GPU Turbo improves the efficiency of the GPU by 60 per cent, meaning that when youre playing a game, youre getting the best performance without it completely eating the battery and processing power of your phone.
We all know that gaming on a mobile phone can drastically drain the battery, and theres nothing more inconvenient than having to cut your game short while you charge your handset.
Thats only part of what GPU Turbo has been designed to combat.
It reduces battery drain by 30 per cent, while still giving you the highest quality gaming experience possible.If you dont want to have to buy a brand new handset to make use of GPU Turbo though, you neednt worry Huawei will be rolling out an update to introduce the technology to a range of its current handsets, including Honor 10, Honor 9 Lite, Honor 7X, Mate 9 and 10 and Huawei P10 and P20, over the next few months.
That means if you currently have a Huawei handset, your gaming experience is set to get a whole lot better.
And, going forward, its going to be the core capability of all Honor handsets.GameBench, developers of mobile game performance analysis tools, ran some tests on a Honor 10 handset, with GPU Turbo turned both on and off.
Using the game Mobile Legends to test, they recorded a median frame rate of 54fps without GPU Turbo activated.
In turning the GPU Turbo on, however, the same game running on the same settings was able to achieve an average frame rate of 59fps (its capped at 60).
Thats a pretty impressive improvement - especially when you consider that Googles flagship phone, the Pixel 2, achieved 57fps in the same test.
(As an aside, the Pixel 2 is over 200 more expensive than the Honor 10.)The power of GPU Turbo is pretty plain to see with those results.
Exactly how Huawei and Honor have managed to achieve such a thing is unclear but considering that leading mobile titles PUBG Mobile and Asphalt 9: Legends have partnered with Honor, it shows that theres a lot of support for GPU Turbos ingenuity.
PUBG has been announced as the official gaming partner for the Honor Play, with more Honor devices set to partner with the game as the GPU Turbo updates roll out.PlayerUnknowns Battlegrounds is a power-hungry game, but on the Honor Play, its able to achieve a full frame rate of over 39fps, and a negligible jitter rate of 0.21%.
With the extra power afforded by GPU Turbo in terms of graphical power and battery life, there really is no better way to play.For more information on Honor Play, please read herehb7TSq9fGybVCfShRFoBWV.jpg#