Though Samsung’s Xclipse 920 built-in graphics processing unit primarily based on AMD’s RDNA 2 structure has not lived as much as expectations, the buyer electronics large will proceed to make use of AMD’s RDNA architectures for its future built-in GPUs, the corporate disclosed on Thursday (opens in new tab).
“We plan to proceed to implement different options within the RDNA sequence by working intently with AMD going ahead,” stated (opens in new tab) Sungboem Park, a vice chairman of Samsung who oversees GPU growth. “On the whole, cell tends to lag round 5 years or so behind consoles in terms of graphics know-how, nonetheless, we had been in a position to incorporate the newest console applied sciences within the Exynos 2200 cell processor rapidly by our collaboration with AMD.
AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 household of GPUs primarily based on the RDNA 2 structure is with none doubts the corporate’s best GPU lineup in a few years, although ray tracing shouldn’t be its strongest facet.
However the Xclipse 920 graphics processor primarily based on the identical structure didn’t actually shine in Samsung’s Exynos 2200 system-on-chip for smartphones both in compute or graphics workloads. Which is why Samsung inked a cope with Qualcomm to make use of its Snapdragon SoCs with Adreno graphics for its upcoming Galaxy S-series handsets globally, as the top of Qualcomm not too long ago revealed (ComputerBase first seen this). Sarcastically, Qualcomm’s Adreno (which is an ambigram of Radeon) growth has been led by Eric Demers, who beforehand labored as GPU architect at AMD, ATI, and ArtX.
“We’re very happy to report that Qualcomm and Samsung have entered a brand new multiyear settlement beginning in 2023, increasing the usage of Snapdragon platforms for future premiums Samsung Galaxy merchandise globally,” stated Cristiano Amon, chief government of Qualcomm in the course of the firm’s Q3 earnings name.
At current, Samsung makes use of Qualcomm’s premium Snapdragon SoCs for its Galaxy S smartphones offered in Asia and the U.S., its personal Exynos SoCs are utilized in fashions offered Europe. The brand new deal permits Samsung to make use of Exynos for European Galaxy S smartphones, however it doesn’t essentially oblige the corporate to take action. Due to this fact, if Samsung has an Exynos SoC with a aggressive CPU and GPU implementation, it would use it as an alternative of Exynos.
However Samsung is definitely enjoying it secure with its alternative of SoCs and GPUs because it additionally intends to make use of Snapdragons for different cell merchandise as effectively, in response to Qualcomm.
“Along with Galaxy smartphones, the settlement consists of PCs, tablets, prolonged actuality and extra,” stated Amon.
Whereas AMD’s RDNA architectures are function wealthy and scalable by way of efficiency, energy, and die dimension, precise implementation issues quite a bit. A GPU realization is dependent upon a number of components, together with expertise of its engineering crew on the whole and with a selected GPU structure particularly, design choices, price, and course of know-how. Due to this fact, Samsung may construct a aggressive RDNA-based built-in GPU generally sooner or later, however its engineers want to realize basic GPU growth expertise first, and the one solution to get it’s to maintain designing graphics processors.
