Samsung declares first smartphone chip with AMD ray tracing GPU

Samsung has introduced the Exynos 2200, its new in-house cellular processor for smartphones. It’s the primary cellular system-on-a-chip to incorporate a GPU with AMD’s RDNA 2 graphics structure, enabling options like hardware-accelerated ray tracing.

The collaboration with AMD has been lengthy within the making. The 2 corporations first introduced a licensing deal in 2019, then AMD confirmed final yr that Samsung’s “subsequent flagship cellular SoC” would use RDNA 2. Samsung not too long ago teased an announcement occasion for the Exynos 2200 that was presupposed to happen on January eleventh, but it surely was mysteriously delayed.

The Exynos 2200 is manufactured on Samsung’s 4nm EUV course of. Samsung is branding this GPU as “Xclipse,” and AMD’s SVP of Radeon GPU tech David Wang says in a press release that it’s “the primary results of a number of deliberate generations of AMD RDNA graphics in Exynos SoCs.”

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On the CPU facet, the Exynoss 2200 makes use of Armv9 cores: one high-powered Cortex-X2 “flagship core,” three Cortex-A710 cores for balanced efficiency, and 4 extra environment friendly Cortex-A510 cores. There’s additionally an upgraded NPU that Samsung says gives twice the efficiency of its predecessor, and the ISP structure is designed to help digital camera sensors of as much as 200 megapixels, one among which Samsung introduced final yr.

Samsung’s highest finish Exynos chips normally make their manner into the corporate’s flagship Galaxy S cellphone sequence, though fashions offered within the US and sure different markets use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoCs. Different cellphone makers like Vivo sometimes use Exynos chips in their very own gadgets, however we’ll seemingly have to attend till the presumptive Galaxy S22 is in our fingers to search out out if AMD’s expertise interprets right into a significant leap ahead in cellular GPU efficiency.