Xiaomi's XRING 03 adds BCn texture support in Mali GPU for Windows game emulation
A Vulkan report revealed that Xiaomi's XRING 03 chip supports block-compressed BCn textures, which other SoCs with ARM Mali graphics lack. This removes a compatibility barrier and allows running Windows games via emulation, as on Snapdragon.
- XRING 03 is a 3nm Xiaomi chip on ARM CPU and GPU architectures
- BCn support is absent in Tensor and Dimensity
- The BCn format is needed for Windows game emulation
- Emulation performance has not yet been tested
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