Samsung's next phone chip is getting a big graphics upgrade from AMD. The new Exynos 2600, destined for future Galaxy phones, will use a customized version of AMD's upcoming RDNA 4 architecture called MGFX4 for its Xclipse 960 GPU. This partnership brings a proprietary upscaling tech named Exynos Neural Super Sampling, or ENSS, aiming to compete with similar features from Nvidia and AMD.
The chip promises double the overall graphics performance and a fifty percent boost in ray tracing compared to its predecessor, despite a slight drop in core clock speed. It packs eight Work Group Processors for computational tasks. Early benchmark leaks, however, show it trailing behind Qualcomm's rival Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in OpenCL and Vulkan tests by a noticeable margin. Samsung is countering potential overheating concerns with a new Heat Pass Block design to improve thermal flow.
The chip promises double the overall graphics performance and a fifty percent boost in ray tracing compared to its predecessor, despite a slight drop in core clock speed. It packs eight Work Group Processors for computational tasks. Early benchmark leaks, however, show it trailing behind Qualcomm's rival Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in OpenCL and Vulkan tests by a noticeable margin. Samsung is countering potential overheating concerns with a new Heat Pass Block design to improve thermal flow.
