Samsung has teased its upcoming Exynos chipset, saying that its GPU will be born from AMD's RDNA 2 technology. This could mean that the forthcoming Samsung Exynos chipset will come with improved gaming performance over the past generations, including the Exynos 990 and the more recent Exynos 2100. Previously, Samsung's in-house Exynos processors have not done well against Qualcomm's Snapdragon and Apple's A-series of chipsets. As the Exynos 2200 chipset is launched, Samsung will look forward to including it in its upcoming lineup of flagship smartphones under the Galaxy S22 series.
In the past, Samsung has released a lot of smartphones with Qualcomm chipsets, including the best-selling foldable devices in the world, i.e., Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3. Then there are the Samsung Galaxy S21 series devices that offer a premium experience. However, as the company also manufactures the Galaxy S21 series smartphones with Exynos 2100 chipset, they fall short of the devices with Snapdragon chipsets. Nevertheless, the upcoming Exynos 2200 is expected to catch up on the gap and provide equivalent performance.
Through a post on the official Twitter handle of Samsung Exynos, the South-Korean company has teased the launch of the next-generation Exynos processor. The tweet also mentions the launch date for the upcoming mobile processor by Samsung, which is Jan. 11, 2022. The tweet also contains a rather cinematic teaser video with a caption that reads, "Playtime is over." Coming to the most exciting part of the teaser, Samsung has mentioned that the upcoming Samsung Exynos processor will come with a graphics processor unit inspired by the industry-leading RDNA 2 technology found on gaming consoles like PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.
Will the RDNA-based GPU bring console-quality graphics to Samsung smartphones?
In June 2021, AMD announced the RX 6000M series of GPUs developed on the RDNA 2 technology for Samsung's Exynos processors. The new GPUs will enable advanced graphic processing features such as variable-rate shading and ray-tracing, which could increase the gaming performance of Samsung's flagship mobile devices. On the launch date, Samsung might reveal the RX 6000M series GPU along with its new Exynos 2200 chipset. For those catching up, RDNA 2 architecture was launched by AMD in Nov. 2020. It boosts the efficiency and performance of a graphics processor, adding features like Sampler Feedback, DirectX Raytracing, Mesh Shaders, and more. Overall, the RDNA 2 graphics processor is considered the best for gaming.
The PlayStation 5 features an AMD Zen 2 CPU with a variable clock speed up to 3.5 GHz, with 8-cores and 16-threads. The graphics processor on the PlayStation 5 is based on AMD RDNA 2 architecture with a variable frequency up to 2.23 GHz. Similarly, the Xbox Series X also features the AMD Zen 2 CPU and a GPU based on RDNA 2 architecture. As a result, both the consoles offer top-notch gaming performance making Samsung's announcement of their upcoming Exynos processor with a "new GPU born from RDNA 2" significant. More details about the graphics processing unit on the Samsung Exynos 220 chipset shall be revealed along with the launch.
Source: Twitter