We haven't heard much gossip about next year's Samsung Galaxy S22 yet, but we just got word of something official that's totally going to happen on the new phone. The new one came from Computex 22 of all places, where AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su confirmed the company is bringing its graphics technology, including ray tracing, to the next generation. of Samsung Exynos chipsets. These Exynos chipsets are almost certainly found in the Samsung Galaxy S22, at least in certain versions that traditionally feature Samsung-built Exynos chips and are only sold in certain markets. Other areas, including the US, will likely continue to get flagships like the Samsung Galaxy S22 with a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. It's certainly possible that Qualcomm's next leading Snapdragon mobile chip will also drop ray tracing and variable rate shading capabilities (which AMD has also announced), but at the moment only the Exynos is confirmed to offer these graphics features. Heck, that makes the Samsung Galaxy SXNUMX (with Samsung silicon) the first phone confirmed to get ray tracing, well, ever.
A confirmed association, but with few details known
A rumor back in May suggested that the upcoming Samsung Exynos 15 chipset would feature an AMD GPU, and while this suggested association is now confirmed, we still don't know how much of an AMD RDNA 1 and "Custom Graphics IP" it is, as Dr. Su claimed on the Computex stage that he's going to get to the next Exynos silicon. The prospect of bringing ray tracing, a graphics rendering technique for generating realistic lighting and reflection effects, that has only been possible with the latest and greatest graphics cards, is huge. He also raises questions about the competition. Is Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon chipset going to be capable of ray tracing effects? Together, could this give Android mobile gaming a huge advantage over iOS? Will the AXNUMX Bionic silicon of the iPhone XNUMX have the same capabilities, or even more? Or is Apple going in a different direction, and now that its desktop MXNUMX chipset is free in the iPad Pro XNUMX, is it going to get its compute silicon on mobile and in this way increase the graphics power? ? There's a lot we don't know, and we'll wait for Samsung to announce more details later this year, as AMD's Dr. Su stated, capping off the all-too-short announcement of the arrival of one of the most advanced graphics technologies. . soon to smartphones. Via PhoneArena