Samsung and AMD start negotiations on the licensing and R&D of new GPU architectures for future mobile platforms
With the news that Samsung will release an Exynos SoC with integrated RDNA 2 architecture GPU next month, it seems that more and more related news has been leaked through different channels. According to rumors in the Clien forum, Samsung may sign a long-term cooperation agreement with AMD in the near future to further deepen the partnership. Negotiations are currently underway. For giving up its own GPU and adopting AMD’s architecture, Samsung thinks it’s worthwhile.
The cooperation between Samsung and AMD in the mobile field began in June 2019, and the two parties announced a strategic partnership. As part of this agreement, Samsung will obtain AMD graphics IP authorization and apply it on mobile platforms, focusing on enhancing mobile devices (including smart phones) to provide vital advanced graphics technologies and solutions. At this year’s Computex, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su has confirmed that Exynos SoC integrated with RDNA 2 architecture GPU will support ray tracing and variable rate shading.
According to people familiar with the forum, this Exynos chip with RDNA 2 architecture GPU is 30% faster than the Mali-G78 used in Exynos 2100 SoC, and the next generation of products will have a greater improvement. However, at this stage, there are some problems with this product that still need to be resolved. For example, the heat is higher than expected, so that the performance of the GPU will be reduced by 20% in the second test and 30% in the third time. Even so, the 30% reduction in performance is still better than ARM’s latest Mali series products. Its peak performance will also be slightly lower than Samsung’s GPU using the RDNA 2 architecture.
Samsung is very satisfied with AMD’s architecture, believes that it has shown sufficient advantages, and began to discuss with AMD the licensing and research and development of next-generation products.
