Glory Play Review: Use | 'Turbo' | Accelerate Phone Performance

From the “grey food snake” in the black-and-white screen function machine to the “render bird” in the popular smart machine, and now to “the glory of the king”, the whole people are eating chicken, and the hardware performance in the mobile phone is getting stronger and stronger. Can carry more and more rich content. According to Atomico's survey report, China's mobile game is worth $24.4 billion, behind which is a huge 600 million mobile game players. It can be seen that the homogenization of the entire mobile phone market has been very serious. Under the circumstances, some brands tried to find new ways to launch so-called game phones to occupy market segments.

As the No. 1 brand on the Internet, Glory naturally understands the trends of young people. However, after all, game phones are niche and relatively expensive. Upgrading hardware is just a matter of “treating the symptoms and failing”. With Huawei’s strong research and development capabilities, Glory released a new 'GPU Turbo' technology today that can still enjoy a high-performance experience without hardware upgrade. Glory Play is equipped with a 'GPU Turbo' product. What exactly is this product, 'GPU' Turbo's technology is not as mysterious as it is in the legend, but it is the problem that our evaluation answers.

Hardware parameters at a glance:

As a new series of flagship game performance experiences, Glory Play naturally receives a certain amount of attention in hardware configuration. In this part of the article, we will browse through the form to glorify Play's hardware configuration.

Through the table you can see that although the price is only 1999 yuan, but the glory Play in the hardware parameters is almost the flagship configuration, whether it is a 6.3-inch full screen, or the flagship Kirin 970 processor, in this price segment, glory Take great care for this product.

Design:

Since Glory 8, Glory has always had a unique view on the appearance of the product compared to other manufacturers. Especially in the selection of product colors, there is no lack of 'Blue Sea', 'Sea Gull', 'Ghost Blue'. These are classics. The color scheme. Although Glory Play is not like the glory digital flagship flagship design, but glory also gives glory Play a new color: Nebula.

Purple has always been a well-respected color scheme in the mobile phone circle. As the annual fashion color in 2018, purple visually displays a mysterious temperament, representing inspiration and imagination. The glorious Play uses the nebula purple color, There is no standard purple color so heavy, it looks more in line with the characteristics of a technology product.

The front of the fuselage is a 6.3-inch 19.5:9 screen with a resolution of 2340*1080. Based on Liu Haiping's design, the front of the glory Play also adopts a minimalist design style. The length of the fuselage chin is only 6.55mm. There is a logo of honor 'honor', which is very recognizable in a crowd of Liu Haiping phones.

Surprisingly, Glory Play did not use the popular glass back shell, but returned to the integrated metal body, using metal stamping technology, back sand blasting process to do scrub processing, the touch is more delicate. And 7.48mm thickness of the fuselage , With a sleek back design, provides a good grip.

Of course, the metal fuselage brings nano-injected antenna strips. Glory Play uses U-shaped antenna, which echoes the roundness of the whole machine.

Glory Play adopts a vertical dual camera design and places the logo of 'AI CAMRRA' on the top of the camera with the glory 10 on the left side of the camera. At the bottom of the camera on the same side of the camera, it is printed with the Logo of honor 'honor'. When the user takes a picture of the horizontal hand shaker, there seems to be a feeling of a card machine.

This is a very scary technology: GPU Turbo.

Before the conference, Glory described this 'very scary technology' as the difference between 'running on the ground' and 'sky flying.' At the press conference, Huawei officially announced the name of the technology: GPU Turbo. We all know In the PC field, Turbo Technology is also known as 'Turbo Boost'. By analyzing the current CPU load conditions, intelligently shut down some cores that are not in use, leave energy to the cores that are in use, and make them run at a higher level. High frequency improves performance.

This time, GPU Turbo launched by Huawei, according to the official introduction, solved the problem of long-term obsession with Android in a soft-hard cooperative manner, and the graphic efficiency increased by 60%, bringing an unprecedented experience to the Android system.

Through our actual tests, we can see that even in the face of the Xiaolong 845, the Unicorn 970 did not lose at the loading speeds of the two major games, “The King of Glory” and “Stimulus Battlefield,” even in the “stimulus battlefield”. Large game, compared with Xiaolong 845 there are obvious advantages.

In the course of the game, after our actual testing, the "Glory of the King" high frame rate mode, Glory Play can be maintained stable at around 60 FPS for 95% of the game time, and the up and down deviation is less than 1 FPS (open character stroke); In the “Stimulus Battlefield,” it stabilized at 30 FPS throughout, with a bias of only 0.6 FPS.

And after half an hour of two games, Glory Play's back body has a maximum temperature of 39.5°C and won't feel hot. This is also thanks to the internal design. Glory Play's front shell aluminum alloy has two layers of graphite. In the gap, the back shell material has 1 graphite layer intermittently, which is more helpful for heat dissipation.

In addition, in the gaming experience, Glory Play gave full play to the characteristics of Unicorn's 970AI chip, let the chip learn tens of thousands of games and audio screens, real-time recognition of the game progress scene, and performance optimization, glory Play in the game can Perform 4D smart vibration tactile matching.

In actual experience, Glory Play identifies the actual use scene through voiceprint, enhances the vibration of the mobile phone motor, and strengthens the combination of the game and the touch. Especially in chicken games, matching the different types of guns at the time of shooting is achieved by adjusting the vibration duration. sound.

In addition, anyone who has played chicken games knows the importance of 'listening to the listeners'. Glory Play relies on AI to intelligently identify games, restore multi-channel soundtracks, and accurately identify gunshot sounds in games. Footstep sound output orientation (Be sure to remember to wear headphones).

EMUI 8.2 Smart System

Glory Play is equipped with the EMUI 8.2 system. After two years of exploration of artificial intelligence, system services are developed around intelligent scenes in EMUI 8.2. Compared to EMUI 5.0, multi-core heterogeneous resource scheduling optimized by artificial intelligence engine can be effective. Improve the fluency and speed of the system.

voice assistant:

Most of the time, we are not talking silly to a mobile phone. The main reason is that: The phone can only understand some 'specific' words and cannot understand our daily speech. So it is in artificial speech. On the other hand, EMUI has strengthened its understanding of natural semantics, such as: What to eat nearby, put a song of Lin Junjie. But for further operations: For example, give me a phone call, EMUI is temporarily powerless.

For the understanding of the content, in EMUI 8.2, it also goes further than other systems. For example, in the browser, two-finger press trigger screen function, can segment words, and can automatically identify pictures, find pictures in the commodity.

In the smart scenario, EMUI 8.2 integrates various functions such as express alerts, situation smart cards, etc. When the system detects that the user has various flights and train information, it can plan the user's itinerary according to the user's information. Also at the top of the screen, EMUI 8.2 Also added five resident services, users can add a variety of one-touch direct shortcuts to complete.

In addition to these features, EMUI 8.2 is also hot for Android on experience and has a series of optimizations for power consumption:

Negative feedback power-saving system: 'Negative feedback' is actually a term used to mean that the ecosystem achieves or maintains a balanced state, and suppresses the initial changes in the opposite direction. In EMUI 8.2, when it was found that the power consumption was too great, the system would Pre-freezing, if you continue to consume a lot of power, directly kill the background (does not affect WeChat, navigate this common software);

Hot cruise system: The system monitors the temperature of the mobile phone in real time and intelligently controls the application of different heat generation. When the application heat is too large, it will perform cooling and restriction and other control measures. When the temperature of the mobile phone is higher than 55°C, all background applications will be closed. , ensure the battery life and safety of the mobile phone;

Photo experience:

Glory Play uses a rear camera with 16 million pixels and 2 million pixels. The aperture is f/2.2 and f/2.4. It supports phase focus and contrast focus. Thanks to the Kirin 970 dual camera ISP, Glory Play also supports AI 2.0. Taking photos, further upgraded to more than 500 scenes that can identify 22 types of tags. After all, what we actually did, we talked with proofs.

In this set of backlights, it can be clearly seen that the effect of AI on photographing is improved. In the backlight environment, the leaves are almost black, and after the AI ​​is turned on, the mobile phone is recognized as a green plant scene, and the brightness of the leaves is significantly increased. And the highlights of the background remain normal, without overexposure. This is the so-called 'image semantic segmentation' of Glory, which allows the image of the viewfinder to be segmented and the range of the processed image to be more precise.

In the daytime performance, the white balance of Honor Play is more accurate, the color is close to what the human eye sees, and the overall look and feel is comfortable. And the glory of the Play Camera's shuttering for tuning is relatively fast, making the film rate higher, and it is relatively easy to use. .

The proof of this flower, the color reproduction of the glory Play proofs is more accurate, and the background blur is more natural.

At night imaging, Glory Play is not as handy during the day, probably due to the author's system version is BETA version, the noise control at the night photographing is more general, the ground has more obvious smear marks. Hope in the official version can be improved .

Self-timer, Glory Play is based on AI algorithm, intelligently recognizes portraits, separates portrait from background, and is free to replace preset backgrounds. Very interesting.

Hardware performance:

As a mobile phone optimized for games, Honor Play Naturally adopts Huawei's Kirin 970 processor. In terms of hardware structure, Kirin 970 uses TSMC's 10nm technology, has built-in 5.5 billion transistors, reduces power consumption by 20%, and has a small chip area. %. CPU, the power consumption is reduced by 20%, the chip area is 40% smaller, and the overall performance and the Snapdragon 835 can be higher. However, in the NPU representing artificial intelligence, the HiAI heterogeneous resource management in the Unicorn 970 will recognize The current task, the chip capabilities to the limit. In the actual running test, Unicorn 970 Geekbench single-core reached 1922, multi-core up to 6718 points.

In terms of AI, the Unicorn 970 uses an independent NPU, and its AI performance density is significantly better than that of the CPU and GPU. Compared to the four Cortex-A73 cores, the same AI task is handled, and the new heterogeneous computing architecture has about 50 times energy efficiency and 25 The double performance advantage means that the Unicorn 970 chip can complete the AI ​​calculation task with less energy consumption. In Lu's AI special running sub-test, it reached a level of 1324, in the current mobile processor. , ranked first.

Evaluation summary:

I believe that for the glory of Play, everyone's interest in GPU Turbo's 'very scary technology' is much better than the product itself. Although the official did not give a very clear product technical analysis, but through our actual test, in the first list of optimized applications Indeed, substantial progress has been demonstrated. For a long time, Android has been in a catch-up position with iOS. One important reason is that compared to iOS, Android systems eat more hardware resources. And GPU Turbo is a glorious technology. The biggest significance of mobile phones is Android. The reason is that Android phones gradually get rid of hardware flaws. For glory brands, even the development of the industry has a certain impact.