Samsung recently renewed its licensing agreement with AMD, and will use AMD-based mobile GPUs on smartphones in the future. According to sources, Samsung is secretly developing a new generation of mobile chips called Exynos 2500, which will be equipped with Samsung’s own GPU, but will also use AMD’s technology. This is another collaboration between Samsung and AMD following the Exynos 2200, the first chip to feature AMD’s RDNA2-based Xclipse 920 GPU, but it didn’t perform as well as it should.
According to whistleblower Revegnus, Samsung is working with AMD to develop a GPU for the Exynos 2500 chip, which is based on AMD technology and specifically focused on optimization.
This new SoC is said to be designed for the Galaxy series of smartphones, suggesting that Samsung will eventually no longer rely on Qualcomm. For that to happen, though, chips must be developed that stand up to the competition. Moreover, Samsung currently lags behind TSMC in the field of foundry. However, there are rumors that mass-produced chips using the second-generation 3nm GAA process will appear in the second half of 2024. Samsung can use its advanced chip manufacturing technology to create the Exynos 2500 chip, but it is unclear which chip will be used. kind of node.
As for the optimization mentioned in the tweet, it may be related to improving power efficiency. The Exynos 2200 chip does not perform well in this regard. Although its ray tracing performance is better than that of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip, battery life is sometimes worse than the performance of a powerful GPU. important. However, it will be a few years before this new Samsung GPU takes shape, and before it, there is the Exynos 2400 chip to look forward to.
