• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
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An Effective Viewport Resolution Scaling Technique to Reduce the Power Consumption in Mobile GPUs

Vol. 11, No. 8, August 30, 2017
10.3837/tiis.2017.08.009, Download Paper (Free):

Abstract

This paper presents a viewport resolution scaling technique to reduce power consumption in mobile graphic processing units (GPUs). This technique controls the rendering resolution of applications in proportion to the resolution factor. In the mobile environment, it is essential to find an effective resolution factor to achieve low power consumption because both the resolution and power consumption of a GPU are in mutual trade-off. This paper presents a resolution factor that can minimize image quality degradation and gain power reduction. For this purpose, software and hardware viewport resolution scaling techniques are applied in the Android environment. Then, the correlation between image quality and power consumption is analyzed according to the resolution factor by conducting a benchmark analysis in the real commercial environment. Experimental results show that the power consumption decreased by 36.96% on average by the hardware viewport resolution scaling technique.


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[IEEE Style]
I. Hwang, H. Kwon, J. Chang, Y. Lim, C. G. Kim, W. Park, "An Effective Viewport Resolution Scaling Technique to Reduce the Power Consumption in Mobile GPUs," KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 3918-3934, 2017. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2017.08.009.

[ACM Style]
Imjae Hwang, Hyuck-Joo Kwon, Ji-Hye Chang, Yeongkyu Lim, Cheong Ghil Kim, and Woo-Chan Park. 2017. An Effective Viewport Resolution Scaling Technique to Reduce the Power Consumption in Mobile GPUs. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 11, 8, (2017), 3918-3934. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2017.08.009.

[BibTeX Style]
@article{tiis:21523, title="An Effective Viewport Resolution Scaling Technique to Reduce the Power Consumption in Mobile GPUs", author="Imjae Hwang and Hyuck-Joo Kwon and Ji-Hye Chang and Yeongkyu Lim and Cheong Ghil Kim and Woo-Chan Park and ", journal="KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems", DOI={10.3837/tiis.2017.08.009}, volume={11}, number={8}, year="2017", month={August}, pages={3918-3934}}