adreno-

1. a combining form representing adrenal or adrenaline in compound words.

   adrenocortical.

Example Sentences

Announced last year, the new G3x chip is designed for Steam Deck-like or Switch-like handhelds, and it has an Adreno GPU capable of running the latest mobile games.

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Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm’s also announcing a new Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 today, suggesting to journalists that it’s aimed at gamers with a 20 percent graphics performance boost over the prior gen and the trickle-down of features like its “Adreno Frame Motion Engine” to make games see smoother by interpolating frames.

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Alongside the top-of-the-line CPU could be a Qualcomm Adreno 730 graphics chip, 12GB of RAM, and 256GB of internal storage.

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In the US, all three of them will reportedly ship with Qualcomm’s latest flagship processor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, while Europe will likely get devices powered by Samsung’s own Exynos 2200 processor — notable for being the first smartphone chip with AMD graphics in over a decade, ever since Qualcomm bought AMD / ATI’s Imageon division and turned it into Qualcomm Adreno graphics.

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As for what’s powering the devices, WinFuture notes that each tablet in Samsung’s new lineup may come with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip and the Adreno 730 GPU.

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When To Use

What does adreno- mean?

Adreno- is a combining form used like a prefix representing either adrenal or adrenaline, especially used in medical terms.Adrenal relates to the adrenal glands, a pair of glands located above the kidneys that produce steroidal hormones, including adrenaline (also called epinephrine).Adreno- is based on the Latin prefix ad-, meaning "toward," and rēnēs, "kidney." You can use that to remember where the adrenal glands are found in the body!What are variants of adreno-?When combined with words or word elements that begin with a vowel, adreno- becomes adren-, as in adrenergic.