A couple of months in the past, with out an announcement, Meta elevated the utmost GPU clock frequency of Quest 3, and this carried over to Quest 3S.
Quest’s Horizon OS dynamically adjusts the headset’s GPU velocity to offer apps the efficiency they want with out losing battery after they don’t want it. The very best frequency is, nevertheless, reserved for apps that allow Meta’s dynamic decision characteristic, which robotically adjusts the decision inside a variety the developer specifies to maximise high quality whereas sustaining body price.
Earlier than the change, the utmost attainable GPU frequency was 545MHz by default or 599MHz in Favor GPU mode, which lets builders commerce off 16% of the utmost CPU clock velocity for additional GPU energy.
Now, after the change, the utmost GPU frequency is 599MHz by default, or 640MHz in Favor GPU mode.
| Most Earlier than | Most Now (when thermals enable) | |
| Default Mode | 545MHz | 599MHz |
| Favor GPU Mode | 599MHz | 640MHz |
The rationale that getting the best most clock velocity requires utilizing dynamic decision is that it isn’t all the time thermally attainable, and this is applicable to the increase too. If the headset will get too sizzling, the OS will carry down the frequency to the earlier most, and scale back the rendering decision too, whereas with a hard and fast decision the frequency discount would end in body drops.
The change implies that Quest 3 apps can run at greater most decision than earlier than, when thermally attainable, if builders enhance the higher restrict of dynamic decision. And since Quest 3S makes use of the identical Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 chipset with the identical GPU, it will get the identical frequencies.
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Meta says that Pink Matter 2, arguably the best constancy title on Quest, was in a position to maintain the upper GPU frequency for 85% of playtime in testing, with no developer integration wanted because it already used dynamic decision with a excessive higher most.
Meta elevated the utmost frequencies of Quest 2 and Quest Professional twice every all through their lifetime, so the brand new increase continues a pattern of the corporate making its headsets extra highly effective with post-launch firmware updates.