Samsung Considers Ditching AMD Radeon Graphics as It Speeds Development on New In-House GPU: Report

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The Exynos 2200 may be the last processor from Samsung Electronics to feature a GPU powered by AMD Radeon graphics. That's according to the @OreXda account, which shared an exclusive report this week about how Samsung may be terminating its existing strategic IP licensing agreement with AMD, which just so happens to have been recently extended in April 2023 as part of a deal to bring multiple generations of high-performance, ultra-low-power AMD Radeon graphics solutions to an expanded portfolio of Samsung Exynos SoCs. Samsung is thinking about severing ties with AMD because it's working on it's own GPU, developed as part of a goal of keeping more hardware in-house. The Exynos 2200's GPU, the Xclipse, is capable of hardware accelerated ray tracing (RT) and variable rate shading (VRS) thanks to AMD's RDNA 2 graphics architecture.

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[Brian_B]

They didn't seem to be using AMD for very long. Sounds like another case of Samsung trying so hard to be Apple.

 

[DrezKill]

Gonna be a little bit longer at least: https://www.thefpsreview.com/2023/1...se-940-gpu-powered-by-amd-rdna3-architecture/

 

[Marees]

Gonna be a little bit longer at least: https://www.thefpsreview.com/2023/1...se-940-gpu-powered-by-amd-rdna3-architecture/

True. Most likely samsung will still license AMD radeon tech but design their own custom GPU hardware.

Microsoft is also thought to be planning such a move for their data centre APUs (powering open AI) & atleast considered the same for future xbox consoles.