Samsung and AMD Radeon announced their partnership all the way back in July, 2019. The partnership now seems to be bearing fruit, as impressive benchmark results have been spotted.
The chip consists of a Samsung Exynos CPU and a custom RDNA-based GPU by AMD. Compared to benchmarks of the Adreno 650 in the Snapdragon 865, the Samsung chip absolutely crushes it with 3X the FPS in benchmark runs. This could be immensely impactful in the mobile gaming world, where game developers haven’t really pushed graphical fidelity. With this amount of headroom, things may start to change.
In the business side of things, this could give Samsung a marketing edge in the Gaming phones segment, since their GPU will be much more powerful compared to other Snapdragon, Mediatek or HiSilicon powered phones. Although there’s one potential roadblock – Samsung uses the Snapdragon chips for American markets, which means they won’t get the AMD GPU.
Whether we’lll see this first on the Galaxy Note 20, S30 or a budget series, time will tell.
Last modified: May 4, 2020