In a glimpse of what might carry a giant enhance to cellular graphics, Samsung simply teased a picture exhibiting assist for ray tracing on one in all its upcoming Exynos processors.

When AMD introduced that it was partnering with Samsung to carry an RDNA 2 to a future cellular chip back at Computex 2021, individuals had been anticipating some huge developments, together with presumably porting over a few of AMD’s desktop graphics tech to cellular chips.

And now in line with an official publish on Weibo (via noted leaker Ice Universe), Samsung has confirmed that it will likely be together with assist for ray tracing within the GPU on a future Exynos chip. In the publish, Samsung confirmed off a side-by-side comparability demonstrating the results of ray tracing, which incorporates extra reasonable mild modeling, improved dynamic vary, and extra.

Unfortunately, whereas Samsung didn’t title a particular chip that might be getting ray tracing or a timetable for its launch, many are predicting that this chip may very well be the upcoming Exynos 2200, which is predicted to be featured in some variations of the Galaxy S22. North American Galaxy S telephones have usually featured Qualcomm Snapdragon chips, whereas worldwide variants get Exynos processors.

It’s additionally considerably unclear from the publish if the picture is an precise screenshot from a recreation or if the picture was merely created to raised illustrate the ability of ray tracing, which renders extra reasonable scenes by calculating and tracing the trail of sunshine because it bounces round a given surroundings, therefore its title.

To add much more gas to the rumors, leaked benchmarks that look like from the Exynos 2200 began making the rounds this summer time exhibiting GPU efficiency just like Apple’s A14 Bionic chip, which is sort of promising on condition that Samsung nonetheless had months to tune and optimize the efficiency of its upcoming SoC.

That stated, it’s necessary to maintain expectations in examine, as a result of again in July, Ice Universe posted a diagram of the Exynos 2200’s chip design exhibiting what seemed to be 384 Stream processors, which is considerably lower than what you get in one in all AMD’s fashionable desktop GPUs. Those usually have round 2,000 to 4000 Stream processors.

With Google having created its personal custom-designed chip for the Pixel 6, referred to as Google Tensor, and Samsung partnering with AMD to construct GPUs for its cellular chips, the battle for cellular silicon supremacy is clearly heating up as smartphone makers attempt to maintain tempo with and presumably outdo Apple’s highly effective A-series chips.

And with Samsung and AMD poised to carry ray tracing to cellular chips for the primary time, issues are about to get much more attention-grabbing.