In a significant stride towards mobile graphics innovation, Samsung has forged a partnership with AMD to harness the power of RDNA architecture in its chipsets. The Exynos 2200 emerged as the pioneering chipset featuring the collaborative AMD GPU. Now, Samsung is charting a course to extend this cutting-edge technology to its mid-range chipsets.
The Exynos 1430 and 1480 are slated to be trailblazers, introducing AMD RDNA-based graphics prowess to Samsung’s mid-range chipset lineup. Anticipated to debut in the Galaxy A15 and Galaxy A55 smartphones, these chipsets are poised for an early release next year.
While Samsung sets its sights on infusing RDNA GPU architecture into mid-range Exynos chipsets, it’s important to temper expectations regarding substantial performance boosts or the inclusion of ray tracing capabilities. Instead, Samsung’s focus appears to be directed towards elevating the Image Signal Processor (ISP) in forthcoming Exynos chipsets within this segment.
Samsung plans to apply mRDNA to the mid-range Exynos processors (Exynos 1480, 1430) set to be released next year. However, this is more focused on ISP rather than gaming. Please don’t have overly high expectations for gaming performance.
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The abbreviation ISP stands for Image Signal Processor, indicating that Samsung’s objective extends beyond amping up gaming performance in mid-range devices. Rather, the emphasis is on enhancing image capture and video recording quality. Of course, it’s reasonable to expect incremental improvements in gaming performance as well.
The collaboration between Samsung and AMD appears to be a long-term commitment, underscored by their renewed agreements to continue advancing AMD RDNA-based mobile GPUs. It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that, in the future, AMD GPU technology will be seamlessly integrated across the entire Exynos range, including the more budget-friendly segments.
