In fact, the promotion of "24-core GPU" in the past was just a cover-up for manufacturers. According to the actual situation, this GPU is actually a single-core design, except that the stream processor has 24 computing units, and then the manufacturer regards each computing unit as a core, which should be a single-core GPU and become a 24-core GPU. This practice was very popular at that time, but later, due to the rapid development of mobile platforms, the number of computing units inside the GPU increased sharply, and manufacturers were embarrassed to boast that the GPU of their chips had hundreds of cores. Coupled with the exaggerated publicity of many people poking at the manufacturers, this situation basically does not exist at present.
Recently, however, some mobile phone manufacturers began to promote the performance of their mobile phones to take pictures with 200 million pixels. This is Z30 Pro, the latest flagship mobile phone of Nubia owned by ZTE, and the slogan is "200 million pixels, four shots in the starry sky", which surprised the author. Nubia is the first mobile phone to boast that it can shoot stars. It is easy to understand that it is equipped with a rear four cameras, which can shoot stars. This is not uncommon. However, 200 million pixels is really unexpected, because in my impression, there is no 200 million pixel sensor. It is rumored that the S5KGND sensor being developed by Samsung claims to reach 200 million pixels, but it will not be used until next year at the earliest. So how did Nubia get these 200 million pixels?
Finally, we actually took a look at Nubian Z30 Pro and found that the "200 million pixels" promoted by it is actually only the total pixel value after all the lenses are superimposed, rather than a single camera reaching 200 million pixels. Nubian Z30 Pro has three 64-megapixel lenses and an 8-megapixel periscope telephoto lens, so it just reaches 200 million pixels, which is why Nubian is shouting the slogan of "200 million pixels", which is similar to the number of GPU cores calculated by the computing unit of the stream processor in the past.
Of course, in terms of parameters, Nubian Z30 Pro is really strong. The 64 million main camera is actually not advanced, using the old sensor, but the 64 million ultra-wide-angle lens can really bring excellent resolution to ultra-wide-angle photography. Coupled with a 64 million humanistic camera, although I don't know what humanistic atmosphere this thing can reflect, even a fill lens can have 64 million pixels. The 8 million periscope telephoto lens can achieve 5 times optical zoom and 50 times hybrid zoom, and its performance is also very powerful.
Of course, although Nubia shouted loudly, it still dared not go too far. For example, on the camera module behind the mobile phone, Nubia honestly typed a word of 64MP 3, indicating that these are three cameras with 64 million pixels, including the "200 million pixel combination" written on the poster. If some users who are familiar with mobile phones don't listen to Nubian's propaganda, they can still see the clues, but if they are not very clear about the specifications of their mobile phones,
As far as we are concerned, let alone Nubian Z30 Pro, we are not interested in this misleading propaganda. According to this kind of publicity, Huawei's previous mobile phones can also promote their own pixels of hundreds of millions, of course, it is not necessary. It can only be said that Nubian Z30 Pro can't find a better and impressive publicity method and product function, so this method of adding several cameras together to calculate the total pixel is offered.