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I feel like this is a big miss for them. Am I really supposed to believe that the company making its flagship phones burn at 14W to simulate the travel of light
by monster_truck 1y ago
I feel like this is a big miss for them. Am I really supposed to believe that the company making its flagship phones burn at 14W to simulate the travel of light through glass for a UI actually cares about the planet?
- mananaysiempre 1y agoI strongly suspect (as I’ve said elsewhere) that there’s no simulation going on, just a bunch of precomputed refraction maps. Two dependent texture fetches are not nothing (and neither of course is the sequentializing nature of rendering a transparent thing over another thing), but I wouldn’t lose sleep over them if there was a point. Thus far I’m not convinced that there is. Has noöne located and disassembled the thing yet? The speculation is getting tiresome. (I don’t own an up-to-date macOS device and have never owned an iOS one, so no help from my end, sorry.)
- monster_truck 1y agoAin't no way precomputed reflection maps are burning through the full TDP of the processor. Even the desktop experience is miserable perf-wise
- itopaloglu83 1y agoFor those who hasn’t seen it, just dropping down the control center consumes 14 watts of CPU/GPU power as demonstrated by various YouTube videos.