Samsung publicizes first cellular 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 two corporations first introduced a licensing deal in 2019, then AMD confirmed final 12 months that Samsung’s “next flagship mobile SoC” would use RDNA 2. Samsung lately teased an announcement occasion for the Exynos 2200 that was speculated to happen on January eleventh, nevertheless it 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 statement that it’s “the first result of multiple planned generations of AMD RDNA graphics in Exynos SoCs.”

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 provides twice the efficiency of its predecessor, and the ISP structure is designed to help digital camera sensors of as much as 200 megapixels, one in all which Samsung introduced final 12 months.

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