Wednesday, April 5th 2023

Samsung Partners with AMD to Bring Radeon Graphics to their Mobile SoCs

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, and AMD today announced they have signed a multi-year agreement extension to bring multiple generations of high-performance, ultra-low-power AMD Radeon graphics solutions to an expanded portfolio of Samsung Exynos SoCs. Through the licensing extension, Samsung will bring console-level graphics quality and optimized power consumption to more mobile devices, offering an incredibly immersive and long-lasting gaming experience.

"Together with AMD, Samsung has been revolutionizing mobile graphics, including our recent collaboration that brought ray tracing capability to mobile processors for the first time in the industry," said Seogjun Lee, executive vice president of Application Processor (AP) Development at Samsung Electronics. "Drawing on our technological know-how in designing ultra-low-power solutions, we will continue to drive ongoing innovation in the mobile graphics space."
"We are excited Samsung selected multiple generations of our leadership high-performance Radeon graphics to advance the next generation of Samsung Exynos solutions," said David Wang, senior vice president of the Radeon Technologies Group at AMD. "The extension of our work with Samsung is a testament to our strong technology partnership and commitment to bring the best experiences possible to mobile users."

Samsung and AMD first announced their partnership to license AMD RDNA graphics architecture in 2019, leading to the co-development of Samsung Xclipse, a mobile graphics processing unit (GPU) based on the AMD RDNA 2 architecture in 2022. Xclipse was the industry's first mobile GPU with hardware-accelerated ray tracing and variable rate shading features for console-like gameplay on mobile devices.
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10 Comments on Samsung Partners with AMD to Bring Radeon Graphics to their Mobile SoCs

#1
LabRat 891
Neat. I would be potentially interested in a handheld device using one of these descendants. Preferably something closer to a PSP, than smartphone or Deck; and with an integrated real qwertyboard.

Related: appuals.com/xclipse-920-amd-van-gogh-lite/
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#2
FreedomEclipse
~Technological Technocrat~
LabRat 891Neat. I would be potentially interested in a handheld device using one of these descendants. Preferably something closer to a PSP, than smartphone or Deck; and with an integrated real qwertyboard.

Related: appuals.com/xclipse-920-amd-van-gogh-lite/
It would be crazy if Samsung entered the handled console market after seen the success of the steam deck. I dont think Sony care as much about that segment anymore which is a shame. There is plenty of room for so many more IPs other than Nintendo based ones.
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#3
Bwaze
It's good for AMD to diversify. 2/3 of their Gaming sector revenue comes from SoC sales for consoles, not PC gaming. And with Nvidia apparently fully embracing AI acceleration, the future for OC gaming isn't very certain...
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#4
LabRat 891
BwazeIt's good for AMD to diversify. 2/3 of their Gaming sector revenue comes from SoC sales for consoles, not PC gaming. And with Nvidia apparently fully embracing AI acceleration, the future for OC gaming isn't very certain...
I don't like the fact I agree; but I see similar.

Like most electronics and other tech (automobiles included), the money is not in the premium or enthusiast markets. It is in the high-volume mass-market sales, and high-margin low-volume pro/server/industry sales.

[Worth a separate thread:
I've been slowly having an epiphany about the entire field. PC gaming (read: Hardware 3D accelerators) literally facilitated AI/MI.
Just recently, I stumbled upon some very old news articles (2003-2007) speaking of the developments out of colleges and enthusiasts to get DX9-era GPUs to accelerate (what we'd now call)
Machine Learning/Intelligence.]
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#6
TheoneandonlyMrK
PenguinBellyDidn't they do this before?
Yes and it says in the OP, 2019 Xenos Eclipse, to be fair , still,, this really would seem to be a re-release or extension.
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#7
LabRat 891
PenguinBellyDidn't they do this before?
Are you speaking of the Samsung Xclipse as mentioned in the article? (This is a PR on AMD extending licensing towards future gens)
or
Are you talking about the very origins of the Adreno mobile graphics? (it's an anagram of ATI's Radeon, for a reason :) )
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#8
Minus Infinity
So people are saying they would actually buy Crapnyos now becuase it has AMD graphics. Not a chance in hell I would ever return to Crapnyos after being forced onto it because I live in Australia. Finally we get Qualcomm. AMD would have done better convincing Qualcomm to dump Mali for SD 8 Gen 4.
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#9
TechLurker
As long as Samsung worked out the kinks that caused early problems with the first attempts, it could lead to some game-optimized tablets and phone variants (such as a "Gaming Fold" or "Gaming Galaxy")
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