Samsung bestätigt RDNA2-basierte Exynos 2200 iGPU unterstützt Raytracing

Samsung appears to be in a hurry to beat Apple and Qualcomm at bringing real-time ray tracing to the smartphone space, with its next-generation Exynos 2200 “Pamir” SoC. The chip integrates a graphics processor based on the AMD RDNA2 architecture, Codename “Voyager.” Samsung all but confirmed that the compute units of this will feature Ray Accelerators, the hardware component that performs ray-intersection calculations. Die “Voyager” Die zwei Modi der ewigen Nacht, as implemented on the Exynos 2200 SoC, physically features six RDNA2 compute units (384 Stream-Prozessoren), and hence six Ray Accelerators.

Aufgebaut auf dem 4 Nanometer-EUV-Siliziumherstellungsprozess, Exynos 2200 will feature not two, but three kinds of CPU cores—four lightwight efficiency cores, three mid-tier cores, and one ultra high-performance core. Each of these three operate in unique performance/Watt bands, giving software finer-grained control over the kinds of hardware resources they want. Samsung is expected to debut the Exynos 2200 with its next-generation Galaxy S and Galaxy Note devices.