AMD and Samsung have been cooking something in their backyards for quite some time. It was even announced at Computex 2021 that AMD is working with Samsung to build an Exynos chip for smartphones based on the RDNA 2 architecture. Well, looks like it has brought better news than what was anticipated. Samsung has confirmed this by posting a gameplay comparison graphic that gives out a glimpse of ray tracing on a smartphone.
If things pan out well, we may get to see Exynos 2200 on the next-gen Samsung Galaxy S22 lineup but expect it to be limited to the Exynos markets only, Snapdragon units may not have the privilege at the time of launch.
Even though it would have been best to understand ray tracing with a video, Samsung chose to tease it with a picture. Stills won’t be able to depict how good and smooth the gameplay is going to be but we know for sure that the entire gaming arena has been leveled up. The image was still able to reflect details such as flames at the bottom of a tank, the building in the background, and the most visible difference of the car in both photos.
The upcoming Exynos also support variable-rate shading with which certain segments of a frame can be shaded, allowing the system to allocate more resources to the important part and lesser on unimportant parts. This will lead to the enhancement of all gaming aspects as more processing power is being drawn.
There will be battery, heating aspects that Samsung will have to work out before releasing this to the public. The measure of how good this ray tracing is still remaining to be seen. A comparison video next time from Samsung would be much appreciated.
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