Samsung Confirms Ray Tracing Support in Next-Gen Exynos SoC with AMD RDNA 2 GPU, Coming to Premium Galaxy Smartphones

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Samsung is currently developing a next-generation Exynos SoC for its premium Galaxy smartphones that leverages AMD’s RDNA 2 technology for what is expected to be an admirable boost in mobile graphics performance. According to a recent post shared by the company on China’s Weibo platform, Samsung’s new Exynos SoC with RDNA 2 GPU will include support for ray tracing, enabling more realistic lighting and reflection effects for games released on the Android platform. The new GPU is rumored to feature 384 Stream Processors.



A machine translation of Samsung’s post on Weibo:



Ray tracing technology is an advanced graphics display technology supported by desktop GPUs. By calculating the position of the light and the reflected area, the pixels in the position area are rendered one by one to produce a lifelike effect. This kind of technology is also about to be carried on the...

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[Grimlakin]

So.... mining farms of samsung phones coming soon to a data center near you?

 

[Brian_B]

So.... mining farms of samsung phones coming soon to a data center near you?