realme GT Neo3 includes Pixelworks technology for superior mobile gaming and leading visual quality benefits

First Realme smartphone powered by Pixelworks delivers stunning visual quality and Ultra-smooth gaming experience

SHANGHAI, March 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Pixelworks, Inc. (NASDAQ: PXLW), a leading provider of innovative video and display processing solutions, and realme, the fastest growing smartphone brand, today announced that the newly launched realme GT Neo3 smartphone features the advanced visual processor of the Pixelworks X5- series to expand the visual enjoyment for users with an always silky smooth gaming experience. In keeping with the spirit of its “Dare to Leap” branding, realme is strengthening the competitive advantage of its smartphones by introducing several industry-leading technologies that boost unprecedented performance and provide consumers with exceptional user experiences.

realme GT Neo3 is one of the first Dimensity 8100 powered smartphones. Manufactured using TSMC’s N5 (5nm) processing technology, MediaTek’s Dimensity 8100 processor features 8-core CPUs, 6-core GPUs and AI processors – together bringing a new dimension as flagship lightweight 5G – Present a mobile platform and achieve an excellent AnTuTu benchmark score of over 820,000 points. The realme GT Neo3 is also the world’s first smartphone with industry-leading 150W fast charging “UltraDart”, launched at MWC 2022, which enables a 50% charge in just five minutes. In addition to powerful hardware and ultra-fast charging technology, the smartphone has exceptional display performance.

The realme GT Neo3 smartphone features a 6.7-inch OLED screen with diamond pixel array. The screen panel supports a color depth of 10 bits and a refresh rate of up to 120 Hz with a resolution of 2412 x 1080 pixels. The advanced visual processor of the Pixelworks X5 series provides the Realme GT Neo3 smartphone with authentic picture quality and enables enhanced playing of ultra-smooth mobile games through the following visual display attributes:

MotionEngine® technology – Pixelworks patented MotionEngine® technology increases the frame rate of game content to 120Hz while preserving the original artistic intent to ensure natural and fluid motion quality. This advanced processing helps eliminate stuttering and artifacts caused by mismatched frame rates, dramatically improving video and gaming image quality. In addition, Pixelworks’ distributed processing offloads GPU workload to reduce overall system power consumption, which in turn prevents overheating and prolongs mobile gaming. The solution also comes with a frame rate improvement mode specially optimized for several popular mobile games including King of Glory, Genshin Impact, Game for Peace and League of Legends.

Absolute color accuracy – Every realme GT Neo3 smartphone is factory calibrated using Pixelworks’ patented and highly efficient calibration technology, which produces an average Delta-E value (an indicator used to measure color accuracy, the lower the better) of less than 1, meaning that the human eye cannot detect any deviation from perfect color reproduction.

Adaptive Ambient Color Correction – Using the 3D LUT method, Pixelworks visual processing performs advanced color calibration, including gamma adjustment, color space modification and error tracking. This calibration technology also provides dynamic correction of non-linear attributes, interference colors, hue, saturation and lightness. The comprehensive management of these attributes at a very precise level produces sophisticated and authentic colors on the screen that are as vivid as the human eye perceives them in “3D space”, regardless of the surrounding lighting conditions.

Professional brightness calibration – Industry-leading brightness calibration results in superior color accuracy in a variety of lighting conditions, optimized for human visual perception. By ensuring the display’s gamma value is always 2.2 (best standard tested by imaging and video processing professionals), Pixelworks technology guarantees the most lifelike experience for the human eye. Even in low light conditions, the solution adjusts the gamma curve to compensate for the viewing environment to ensure consistent color representation of the content displayed on the screen.

“As an emerging brand favored by many young people, the ‘Dare to Leap’ spirit is deeply embedded in realme’s DNA. Smartphones are used as the main display device in our daily life, offering the flexibility to provide optimized content for various communication and entertainment applications is becoming increasingly important,” said Chase Xu, vice president of realme. “We want to satisfy consumers by launching products with new technologies and exceptional performance at reasonable prices. In addition to pioneering the introduction of the latest mobile platform and charging technology, the realme GT Neo3 smartphone offers differentiated display performance. Through our collaboration with Pixelworks and the integration of their industry-leading visual display technology, we are pleased to announce our To provide users with enhanced visual performance, superior image quality, and longer enjoyment of a silky smooth gaming experience.”

“Congratulations to the Realme team on the exciting launch of the realme GT Neo3! This device launch demonstrates Realme’s recognition of precise consumer pain points and quick response to introduce comprehensive and industry-leading solutions. This dedicated pursuit of innovation drives realme’s continued leadership.” with best-in-class performance, design, quality and service benefits.” called Leo Shen, Sr. VP, GM of Mobile BU, Pixelworks. “It is a pleasure to work with realme for the first time on the Realme GT Neo3 smartphone. Utilizing Pixelworks’ advanced visual processor and other innovative technologies, this smartphone is fully equipped to showcase its innovative design, powerful performance and take the user experience to a new level.

Availability
The recently announced Realme GT Neo3 smartphones are expected to hit stores March 22, 2022.

About Empire:
realme is a global emerging consumer technology company revolutionizing the smartphone and AIoT market by making cutting-edge technologies more accessible. It offers young consumers a range of smartphones and lifestyle technology devices with premium specifications, quality and forward-thinking designs at affordable prices.

Founded by sky li in 2018 and driven by its “Dare to Leap” spirit, realme is the 6th largest smartphone company in the world and in just three years has grown to become one of the top 5 smartphone players in 30 markets worldwide. By Q2 2021, realme has entered 61 markets worldwide including China and South East Asia, South Asia, Europethe middle East, Latin Americaand Africaand has a global user base of over 100 million.

For more information, please visit www.realme.com.

About Pixel Works
Pixelworks provides industry-leading content creation, video delivery and display processing solutions and technologies that enable highly authentic viewing experiences with superior visual quality on all screens—from cinema to smartphone and beyond. The company has over 20 years of experience providing innovative imaging solutions to leading providers of consumer electronics, professional displays and video streaming services.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.pixelworks.com.

Note: Pixelworks, MotionEngine, and the Pixelworks logo are registered trademarks of Pixelworks, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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