TL;DR
- Google has started rolling out a new GPU driver for the Pixel 10 series with Android 16 QPR3 Beta 1.
- The update aligns with Imagination’s August driver release and brings Android 16 and Vulkan 1.4 support.
- While real-world performance gains remain unconfirmed, the update should reach stable builds in a future Pixel Drop
I’m seeing people online talking about how Genshin Impact has sucked on the Pixel 10 all these months. That’s insane. 5 year old game that’s incredibly popular. I don’t get how Google can be so comfortable being so mediocre as a vertical integrator. Apples transition to internal CPU and later GPU went way smoother than Googles. Apple going from powerpc to x86 and then x86 to arm felt like they both had less growing pains then when google stayed in ARM but started using their in house Tensor chips with mali graphics and now powervr
Google always tries to cheap out on hardware and try to make up for it in software.