Samsung smartphones get AMD GPU with support for ray tracing and VRS

Later this year, Samsung will present an Exynos soc for high-end smartphones with a GPU based on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture. The GPU has support for ray tracing and variable rate shading.

Samsung has been working with AMD for GPUs in its socs since 2019. The first chip with AMD GPU should come out this year. Samsung has not yet given details about this, but AMD says during its Computex presentation that it is a soc for high-end smartphones and that Samsung will come with more details later this year.

The integrated GPU in the Exynos-soc is a modified GPU based on the RDNA 2 architecture. The same GPU architecture is used in the Radeon RX 6000 video cards and the GPUs of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S. It was already known that Samsung would make a GPU based on the RDNA architecture, because it was licensed there. for has declined.

Samsung’s Exynos-soc with RDNA 2-GPU will receive support for ray tracing and variable rate shading, according to AMD. With that, those techniques come to smartphones for the first time. With ray tracing, reflections and shadows can be realistically calculated. VRS is a technique to render certain parts of the image with less details, in order to free up computing power for, for example, a higher frame rate.