The visually impressive "Liquid Glass" design isn't just a static background; it's a dynamic feature that constantly adapts. This real-time processing creates translucent, reflective, and refractive effects that react to your content and movements. Such dynamic visuals require continuous effort from your GPU to render smoothly.

Compared to simpler designs, the "Liquid Glass" aesthetic involves significantly more complex lighting, shadows, and transparency calculations. This substantially increases the GPU's workload, as it's responsible for drawing all these intricate visual elements onto your screen.

While the GPU handles the actual rendering, the CPU (Central Processing Unit) still plays a crucial role in preparing the scene data for the GPU. For such a complex and dynamic interface, the CPU needs to process more instructions and data to feed to the GPU, which can increase its own workload.

All this intensive graphics processing naturally leads to higher power consumption. This can result in faster battery drain and, in some cases, your device feeling warmer as both the CPU and GPU work harder. Ultimately, achieving that fluid and realistic "Liquid Glass" look requires your iPhone's hardware to constantly calculate and display these advanced visual effects, impacting overall performance and battery life, especially on older devices.

>>105566178 (OP)
I like it. I can’t wait for it to roll out to my Apple devices.

>>105566181
It looks good, but it's nice to be aware that the effect have real time calculations. Just like backdrop-filter CSS effects used on the web which are CPU-intensive.

>>105566178 (OP)
>liquid ass

more retarded shit made for normies that is meant to be disabled and forgotten about by the rest of us

>>105566178 (OP)
>visually impressive
it's legit impressive how much they managed to fuck the design up, I'll give you that

>>105566178 (OP)
some retarded llm wrote this
truth is if properly implemented the liquid ass should be practically free, it's practically equivalent to the old blurry transparency

it looks like ass especially the clear mode and tinted mode for the icons

I do not care at all and I don't even know why I'm replying to this thread or on this website in the first place

>>105566372
That's a common misconception, and people that word with CSS3 knows why.
It's different because it's applying the effects to the elements behind it. the browser needs to constantly re-evaluate and re-render the blurred backdrop, which can be computationally expensive.

Blurring the element itself operates on a single element and its children. backdrop-filter (or equivalent) operates on pixels from potentially multiple elements that happen to be behind it in the rendering stack.

This means the browser has to render the elements behind it first, then apply the blur, and then render the element with the backdrop-filter on top. This involves more complex rendering calculations, when scrolling, or during animations.

liquid ass is not real

iTODDLERS BTFO

Don't really care about the performance impact. The problem is that the illusion of depth isn't really working for me so I just see everything as having the same weird uneven border.

>>105566178 (OP)
I thought liquid glass was like a new type of screen the way they're talking about it.

But it's just a ui update? New icons?

Laaaaame

>>105566178 (OP)
Anyone who used windows 7 on laptop would have already been familiar with turning off aero for battery life.

oh no no no no

The only impressive thing is how they managed to copy Windows Vista and pretend it's a new thing

Makes sense. Liquid ass also depletes hydration and nutrition in the biological case.

I've been out of the loop, so lemme get this straight
>Apple just dropped a jeet theme

>>105568130
It's a theme. A literal theme. It's the same as enabling aero transparency on windows with a couple new "theme specific" layouts.

>>105566509
>>105566372
It's all hardware-accelerated and therefore has barely any cost at all in processing or energy consumption.

>>105568757
regardless if the processing is done by the CPU or GPU, the energy consumption is the same. Being hardware-accelerated just means it will use the GPU for the processing.

>>105568804
Not true. The statement oversimplifies — hardware acceleration (e.g. via GPU) often changes both performance and energy consumption, and the difference can be significant.

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Key distinctions:

1. Energy consumption depends on efficiency, not just activity
• GPUs are optimized for parallel, high-throughput tasks (e.g. video decoding, rendering, ML).
• For those tasks, they are faster and more energy-efficient per unit of work than general-purpose CPUs.

Example: Hardware-accelerated video playback (H.264 decode) via GPU can consume much less total power than software decoding via CPU — even though the GPU may use more peak power.

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2. Power ≠ energy
• Power is instantaneous consumption (watts).
• Energy is power × time.
• So a GPU might use more watts, but complete the task faster less total energy used.

Summary:
• Hardware acceleration ≠ same energy — it’s often more efficient overall.
• Saying “the energy is the same” is misleading; in most real-world cases, hardware acceleration reduces both processing time and total energy.

SAAR HERE IS LIQUID SHART *BRPPPFFFFFF*

>>105568874
Thank you jeetGPT

>>105568927
Let me know the context (e.g. browser video playback, gaming, ML inference) — efficiency varies by use case.

>>105566178 (OP)
It's probably just a frag shader

>>105566509
>This means the browser has to render the elements behind it first, then apply the blur, and then render the element with the backdrop-filter on top. This involves more complex rendering calculations, when scrolling, or during animations.
If you set it up to use a shader pipeline that does both the base element render and the processing, then it's dirt cheap. It's only a problem if you're swapping back and forth between different pipelines.

I'm starting to think they do this shit to fuck with people.

>GPTslop OP
>multiple conversations with an LLM ITT
This board should've stayed dead after the hack.

Its impressively bad yes

>>105566178 (OP)
software world is always finding ways of making shit more inefficient
imagine that cars would be using more and more gas every fucking year

>liquid ass
>shits all over your battery
hmm yes very good sars

>>105568518
How can I trust a company that makes such blatant oversights like this...

Why would anyone be mad that a company is trying to release a universal design across all their shitty products? Fucking Windows can't even figure out how to do it on one operating system. We still have Windows XP dialogue boxes in Windows 11.
Whatever, all I care about it what Samsung steals and brings over to OneUI.

>>105570297
>Why would anyone be mad that a company is trying to release a universal design across all their shitty products?
They always did this retard.

>>105570297
Just like with MetroUI on desktop Windows, an universal design is bad if it sucks ass.
Consistency is less important than usability.

>>105568536
Frutiger Aero is jeet now? /pol/cel kys. There are only TWO curry OSs
>Windows
>Android

Frujeetger aero

>>105570297
general purpose is an anti-feature and has been a disaster for computers.
mobile and desktop are two very different platforms.
Trying to generalize and unify them with 1 solution is awful

>>105566178 (OP)
>2000$ smartphones with mind boggling processing power
>nooooo you can't just use it, think of the planet o algo, it's... le immoral to use your hard earned resources
Typical libtard anti-progress death cult opinion. Western civilization was smothered by this retarded regressive attitude us in these dreadful last 15 years. The jews had a good run, but now it's unequivocally over. We're getting infinite nuclear power, supersonic planes, and even space travel, regardless of how cringe the guy pushing it is. There's no going back, the new roaring 20s are on.
That being said, it still looks like shit, but that's just an issue of shit taste.

>>105570371
when I was in middle school in the last month I had the opportunity to go to a place of my choice as a soft interview to shape my direction in high school. I wanted to go to digipen and nintendo but I was told no because they where full. instead I was forced to go to microsofts Xbox team. there all we did was get followed around by an incomprehensible jeet who kept talking over and over about this thing called blutood that I am sure you can figure out the real name of now that was going to be the future, but instead of showing us that with like a promo of a wireless controller for the then unamed and unrevealed xbox successor like my wavebird he just kept talking about it. we got handed some graph paper with a xbox logo on the cover but got to see basically nothing cool.

I expected nothing and was still let down.

>>105570355
MetroUI was gay, a good design can be scaled from a phone to a desktop and work on both. Do you just like to be upset about things?

>>105570412
>original xbox era microsoft was already jeeted
grim

>>105566178 (OP)
no shit sherlock

FOR BEAUTIFUL LOOKS SAAR

>>105568804
Maybe you should stick to lurking if you don't know shit about the conversation topic.

>>105568554
Why are they making such a big deal about it

>>105566178 (OP)
>Liquid Glass design is a battery & CPU cycles drainer
Just hook up steve jobs' corpse to a rotational generator and we'll have enough power for the foreseeable future.

>>105567589
bass

>>105566178 (OP)
who cares just charge your battery

>>105571006
what else are they supposed to do? innovate? lmao

>>105566178 (OP)
Kys llm poster

You just wait, they're going to add DLSS support in an update and you're all gonna look stupid.

Liquid Glass is the future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mj9dslvTNk

... and then I was like "more like liquid ass!" ahahahahaha

>>105566178 (OP)
>battery now won't last for the whole day in the base model
>UNVEILING THE NEW POWER+ EDITION WITH 30% HIGHER BATTERY CAPACITY FOR ONLY $399.99 MORE
yeah

>>105566178 (OP)
liquid glass?
you mean the fucking butt ugly windows vista theme?

more like LIQUID ASS
LMAO #REKT

>>105566178 (OP)
it feels like projecting onto real glass would be easier than spending all this compute and recording time to fake it on a black led screen
the holographic interface it's trying to invoke to is stupid anyway, there is no value in seeing the wall through your computer screen

>>105575575
OH NO N ON ONO

>>105566178 (OP)
It can't be much more costly than basic blurred background.

>>105577542
Ite is more costly, as explained here:
>>105566509

>>105575207
This is pure sex dough bee it

>>105570297
because it is from the worst product in their lineup, and it is the product that doesn't work like the others.
also, because different apps can use different technologies, it will be inconsistently applied.