AnandTech對Gpu Turbo技術的解析（第一篇）

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原文鏈接：https://www.anandtech.com/show/13285/huawei-gpu-turbo-investigation

原標題：Huaweis GPU Turbo: Valid Technology with Overzealous Marketing

原標題翻譯：華為的GPU Turbo：有效的技術+過度的營銷

One of the biggest announcements from Huawei this year is that of its new GPU Turbo technology. The claims that it could provide more performance at less power, without a hardware change gave us quite a bit of pause. Internally, more than a few raised eyebrows appeared. As part of our discussions with Huawei this year at IFA, as well as some pretesting, we actually now have a base understanding of the technology, as well as additional insight into some of the marketing tactics – not all of which are the most honest representations of the new feature.

華為今年宣布了GPU Turbo技術，並聲稱此技術可以在提升性能的同時及降低功耗，但卻不需要任何硬體上的改變。我們對此非常關切。在今年的IFA上我們與華為進行了一些討論，包含很多前沿內容。我們現在對此項技術已經有了基本的了解，同時我們也對華為的營銷策略進行了深入的研究——有些針對新特性的營銷並不誠實。

GPU Turbo is said to be a new mechanism that promised great performance and power improvements to new and existing devices. The new 『technology』 was something that was first introduced in early June with the Chinese release of the Honor Play, and will be updated to a version 『2.0』 with the launch of EMUI 9.0 later in the year.

華為宣稱GPU Turbo可以讓新舊設備性能和功耗都得到巨大的改善，這一項技術是在榮耀Play發布會上首次發布的，今年晚些時候Gpu Turbo會隨著EMUI 9.0的發布更新為2.0版本。

Over the next few months Huawei plans to release the technology on all of its mainstream devices, as well as going back through its catalogue. Huawei promises that all devices, irrespective of hardware, will be able to benefit.

接下來的幾個月，華為會在其旗下所有的主流設備上更新Gpu Turbo技術。華為承諾所有的設備，無論採用了什麼硬體都能得到提升。

From the weeks following the release of GPU Turbo on the first few devices, we saw quite a lot of hype and marketing efforts on Honor and Huawei』s side with the goal of promoting GPU Turbo. Over all the presentations, press releases promoted articles, and fuzzy press analysis, one important thing was consistently missing: we saw no technical explanation as to what GPU Turbo actually is and how it works. Everything was about results, but nothing was about details. At AnandTech, it』s the details that really resonate in our understanding, as to whether a new feature is genuine or not.

在GPU Turbo發布的最初幾周里，我們看到了華為針對Gpu Turbo的大量營銷行為。在所有的這些宣傳里，有一件最重要的事情始終被刻意忽略，那就是沒有任何針對Gpu Turbo在技術上的解釋，一切都只是所謂的「結果」。而對於我們（AnandTech）來說，只有真正的細節信息可以告訴我們，這一個新特性是否是真實的。

Huawei, to its credit, did try to reach out to us, but neither the company nor PR ever really responded when we asked for a more technical briefing on the new mechanism. We』re not sure what the reason was for this, as historically the company has often been open to technical discussions. On the plus side, at this year』s IFA, we finally had the chance to meet with a team of Huawei』s hardware and software engineers/managers.

值得稱讚的是，華為確實試圖與我們聯繫，但當我們試圖詢問更多的技術細節時，無論是公司還是公關部門都沒有進行任何的回應。我們不確定這是什麼原因，因為以前華為經常積極的與我們進行技術討論。令我們欣慰的事，在今年的IFA上，我們終於有機會見到了華為的硬體和軟體工程師團隊。

Through these discussions, we developed some detailed explanations that finally made more sense of the past month』s marketing claims. The plus side of this is that we now have a better understanding of what GPU Turbo actually does (and it makes sense), although it also puts a chunk of the marketing slides on the ignore pile.

通過這些討論，我們終於得到了一些具體的解釋。

In this first piece on GPU Turbo, we』re going to go through the story of the feature in stages. First, we』ll look at Huawei』s initial claims about the technology: specifically the numbers. Second, we』ll go deeper into what GPU Turbo actually does. Third, we examine the devices we do have with the technology, to see what differences we can observe, and finally we address the marketing, which really needs to be scrutinized.

首先我們我們會解析華為官方提供的性能數據，其次我們將深入研究Gpu Turbo的真實表現。然後我們將對比我們手上實裝了Gpu Turbo與沒有該技術的設備。最後我們將探討關於市場營銷的問題，這的確需要仔細的研究。

It should be noted that time permitting, and resources permitting, we want to go deeper into GPU Turbo. With the upcoming launch of the Mate 20 and the new Kirin 980 SoC inside, we will want to do a more detailed analysis with more data. This is only the beginning of the story into GPU Turbo.

值得一提的是，如果時間和資源允許，我們想更加深入地研究Gpu Turbo。隨著華為Mate 20和麒麟980的發布，我們將對更多的數據進行分析。這只是我們對Gpu Turbo技術分析的開始。

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