In 2008, apple opened its app store and within a few years time, it dominated the best selling apps chart. Now catering the needs of gamers has become one of the  ardent priorities of mobile phone manufacturers. Following the Apple’s lead Android and windows phones also developed numerous apps, especially games. According to a major manufacturer of mobile chip sets, almost 60 percent of mobile users play games on their handheld devices daily. These mere numbers shows the interest of users in mobile games.

In order to build up monopoly in the market and sell more and more devices, the manufacturers are in a leg-pulling race to compete other manufacturers with better and better graphics capabilities with dedicated processors. To attain high quality graphics of games in mobile phones, manufacturers have to enable mobiles to paint hundreds of thousands of pixels at same time and not only 2D pictures or videos but also rendering of complex 3D environments.

Qualcomm and Nvidia are two most famous chip set manufacturers and are putting up their best efforts to make mobile graphics better for ultimate gaming experience. In 2009, Qualcomm bought graphics operations of AMD to enhance its capabilities. ARM is considered to be the manufacturer of world’s most smart phones’ general-purpose processor has also been lately putting great emphasis on its graphics processors. Nvidia on other hand is a most popular graphics chips producer of computers has also jumped in mobile graphics processors. According to a senior official of Nvidia, we have noticed lately that mobile phone is all about its display and purely relies on graphical interface to interact with user.

One of the biggest challenges faced by companies like Qualcomm and Nvidia was to develop graphics processors for mobiles and provide advanced processing without draining battery in 20 minutes. On other hand in computers, the graphic cards are beefed up with power supplies and cooling fans. However, the companies managed develop advanced graphics processors, which render same complex scenes and use less than one percent of energy as compared to desktop graphic cards.

With due efforts, manufacturers of graphics processors have now reached the same level as of gaming consoles. Now gamers connect their mobile phones with big screens and play games like pros.