iQOO’s product manager took to Weibo today to share more details about the company’s new in-house gaming chip, the Q3, which will debut with the upcoming iQOO 15.
According to the post, the Q3 chip is designed to overcome the performance and power efficiency limits of traditional SoC GPUs. iQOO claims that the Q3’s energy efficiency allows it to deliver a “double breakthrough” in both visual fidelity and power management.
In other words, the chip can handle complex lighting and reflection effects while keeping heat and battery drain under control. The biggest technical highlight, though, is in ray tracing performance.
According to iQOO, mobile ray tracing, which simulates realistic light behavior in 3D environments, often consumes “hundreds of milliamps per frame.” The company says the Q3 reduces that to just 3 milliamps per frame, making real-time ray tracing far more practical on handheld devices.
This improvement could let players experience lighting, reflections, and shadows closer to what’s seen in high-end PC games, even in large open-world titles.
In a separate Weibo post, the iQOO product manager responded to questions about how the Q3 differs from common GPU interpolation methods used across the industry.
He explained that while most mobile devices rely solely on SoC-based GPUs, iQOO adopts a hybrid Q3 + SoC architecture, offloading some of the workload from the main GPU.
This setup, he said, helps maintain stable frame rates and consistent power consumption during demanding gaming sessions, reducing frame drops and stutters in intensive scenes.
The Q3 is iQOO’s self-developed gaming chip, built using TSMC’s process. The company claims a 60 percent boost in performance, a 40 percent increase in energy efficiency, and a 400 percent jump in AI computing power compared to its predecessor. It also comes with 50 percent more cache for smoother frame delivery during heavy gaming sessions.
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