Not exact matches
Bottom Line: The Asus U46E - BAL6 is a
processing goliath, thanks to its quad -
core processor, and it's only meant for those who abuse their laptops with high - end video and
photo editing packages.
Quad
core processing is only really needed for heavier
photo editing or skipping merrily through videos, and while it does pack a multi-
core heart, the Hudl doesn't really have the necessary grunt to keep up.
So the Pixel Visual
Core will learn to take better
photos in dim lighting, faster shutter for faster shots while taking on less power for
processing.
This octa -
core chipset is designed to assist with
photo processing and is said to run HDR + «5x faster» and use «less than 1 / 10th the energy» compared to typical application processors.
Prior to the update, only the main camera app on the Pixel 2 used the Pixel Visual
Core to
process photos.
In practice, the new Pixel devices should capture and
process photos and videos more quickly and be able to do so longer on a single charge than most other smartphones, so long as you're using Pixel Visual
Core - compatible apps.
The Pixel Visual
Core is Google's very first custom - designed System on Chip (SoC) that's dedicated to handling image
processing when taking
photos with the Pixel 2 smartphones.
Software
processing has thus far been behind the Pixel 2's
photo prowess, but it's now received a significant power - up via Pixel
Core.
Android 8.1 isn't a huge update, but it does enable the Pixel Visual
Core on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, which is a co-processor that improves the speed of
processing HDR
photos, as well as making them less of a drain on your phone's battery.
Google cites performance of the Pixel Visual
Core at around 3 trillion operations a second, and says that the famous HDR + functionality of Google Camera on supported devices (specifically the Pixel 2) will
process photos 5 times faster than previous generations, all while using one tenth of the power that it would take to run the same computations on the main Snapdragon 835.
The update also activates the Pixel Visual
Core system - on - a-chip (SoC), which is the image processor built into the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL specifically for
processing photos.
Google revealed the Pixel 2's and Pixel 2 XL's HDR + and machine learning capabilities for computational
photo processing will be the result of work by the Pixel Visual
Core, the company's first - ever own - design co-processor.
Credit: Tom's GuideIn a blog post yesterday (Oct. 17), Google detailed plans to use the Pixel Visual
Core, one of the Pixel 2's new co-processors specifically designed for image
processing, to produce better HDR
photos.
Once the Pixel Visual
Core is switched on with the software update, third - party apps will be able to have access to that extra
processing power, which means the smartphone can automatically
process those HDR +
photos without slowing the smartphone down — and without using the native camera app.
Google says that using the Pixel Visual
Core, the smartphone can
process HDR +
photos five - times faster but with only a tenth of the battery drain when compared to the application processor, which third - party apps currently use for imaging.
Below are some sample
photos showing what scenes look like with and without the Pixel Visual
Core processing of HDR +.
The purpose of the Pixel Visual
Core in the Pixel 2 smartphones is that it will speed up the HDR +
process when taking
photos.
This 8 -
core IPU (Image
Processing Unit) is a new chip dedicated specifically to
processing HDR +
photos up to 5x faster and at 1 / 10th the power of using the main Application Processor (AP).