Technical Glossary (1935 terms)

Standardized hardware and benchmark definitions across smartphones, laptops, CPUs, GPUs, SoCs, and tablets.

• DisplayPort — A display output standard that supports high refresh rates and can run over USB-C. [ PORTS ]
• DisplayPort 1.4 — A DisplayPort version supporting 4K at high refresh and HDR over a USB-C or DP link. [ PORTS ]
• DisplayPort 2.1 — The newest DisplayPort version, with far higher bandwidth for 8K and beyond. [ PORTS ]
• DisplayPort port — A video output connector used for monitors, often carried over USB-C. [ PORTS ]
• Do Not Disturb — A mode that silences calls and notifications on a schedule. [ SOFTWARE ]
• Dolby Atmos — Object-based surround sound that makes speakers/headphones feel more immersive. [ AUDIO ]
• Dolby Digital — A multi-channel audio format used for surround sound. [ AUDIO ]
• Dolby Digital Plus — An enhanced Dolby Digital format with higher quality and more channels. [ AUDIO ]
• Dolby Vision — Dynamic HDR format that adjusts brightness and color scene-by-scene for cinema-grade video. [ DISPLAY ]
• Dolby Vision IQ — Dolby's HDR format that adjusts the picture to ambient room lighting in real time. [ DISPLAY ]
• Dolby Vision video — Video recorded in Dolby Vision HDR for richer highlights and colour. [ CAMERA ]
• Dragontrail — AGC's strengthened glass alternative to Gorilla Glass. [ DISPLAY ]
• Drop Resistance — How well a device survives falls; DeviceBenchmark grades results like 'Very good (B) · 180 drops'. [ DURABILITY ]
• DxOMark — Independent lab that scores phone camera and display quality. [ BRANDS ]
• DynamIQ — Arm's successor to big.LITTLE, allowing flexible core clusters in one chip. [ CHIPS ]
• Dynamic AMOLED — Samsung's premium AMOLED panel generation with HDR10+ support. [ DISPLAY ]
• Dynamic Island — Apple's pill-shaped cutout and notification UI on newer iPhones. [ DISPLAY ]
• ECC — Memory that detects and corrects data errors — a stability feature for servers and workstations. [ MEMORY ]
• EDGE — Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution — a 2.5G standard. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• EIS — Software-based video stabilization that crops and warps frames to smooth shake. [ CAMERA ]
• EN-DC — E-UTRAN New Radio Dual Connectivity, using 4G and 5G radios together. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• ENC — Environmental Noise Cancellation, which reduces background noise on calls. [ AUDIO ]
• EOTF — The transfer function that maps HDR values to display output. [ DISPLAY ]
• EQ — Equalizer, a tool that adjusts the balance of audio frequencies. [ AUDIO ]
• EUV — Extreme ultraviolet lithography used for cutting-edge chip nodes. [ CHIPS ]
• EV-DO — Evolution-Data Optimized, a data upgrade to CDMA2000 1x. [ CONNECTIVITY ]
• EVGA — Former NVIDIA board partner known for high-end GeForce cards and PSUs. [ BRANDS ]
• EXPO — AMD's Extended Profiles for Overclocking for DDR5 RAM. [ MEMORY ]
• Emerald Rapids — Intel's 5th-gen Xeon Scalable microarchitecture (2023). [ CHIPS ]
• Ethernet — Wired networking via an RJ45 port; faster and more stable than Wi-Fi. [ PORTS ]
• Ethernet port — A wired network port (RJ45) for connecting to a LAN. [ PORTS ]
• Everest — Apple's high-performance CPU core used in the A17-A19 chips. [ CHIPS ]
• Exynos — Samsung's in-house mobile SoC family used in Galaxy phones. [ BRANDS ]
• Exynos 2100 — Samsung's flagship SoC used in the Galaxy S21 (launched in 2021). [ CHIPS ]
• Exynos 2200 — Samsung's flagship SoC with AMD-based Xclipse GPU (launched in 2022). [ CHIPS ]
• Exynos 2400 — Samsung's flagship SoC used in the Galaxy S24 (launched in 2024). [ CHIPS ]
• Exynos 2500 — Samsung's flagship SoC for the Galaxy S25 generation (launched in 2025). [ CHIPS ]
• Eye Comfort Shield — Samsung's display mode that reduces blue light and adjusts warmth to ease eye strain. [ DISPLAY ]
• Eye protection mode — A display setting that cuts blue light and warms the image to reduce eye strain. [ DISPLAY ]
• FALD — Full Array Local Dimming — an LCD backlight split into many independently controlled LED zones behind the panel, rather than a single edge-… [ DISPLAY ]
• FAT32 — An older file system with wide compatibility but a 4 GB per-file limit. [ STORAGE ]
• FLAC — FLAC is a popular open lossless audio codec that compresses without quality loss. [ AUDIO ]
• FLOPS — Floating-point operations per second; a raw measure of compute power for GPUs and AI. [ GAMING ]
• FP16 — Half-precision 16-bit floating point, used in AI and graphics. [ CHIPS ]
• FP32 — Single-precision 32-bit floating point, the standard for GPU compute. [ CHIPS ]
• FPGA — An FPGA is a reconfigurable chip whose logic can be reprogrammed. [ CHIPS ]
• FPS — How many frames a device renders per second; higher FPS means smoother games and video. [ GAMING ]
• FSR — AMD's open upscaling tech that boosts FPS; works across NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs. [ GAMING ]
• FSR frame gen — AMD's FSR frame generation adds interpolated frames to boost smoothness. [ GAMING ]
• FXAA — Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing — a cheap smoothing method. [ GAMING ]