Samsung would focus as much as possible on the internal development of its own GPUs. The idea? Succeed in getting rid of AMD in the medium term for the design of the graphics parts integrated into future Exynos SoCs.
Samsung would have more ideas… to offload AMD. Announced with great fanfare in 2019, the partnership between Samsung and AMD for the design of the graphics parts integrated into Exynos mobile processors ended up bearing fruit in early 2022 with the Exynos 2200. We learned this week that this collaboration would however be living its final hours .
According to the leaker @OreXda on internally by the Korean giant’s teams. The news comes to us as Samsung announced, last April, that it had renewed its strategic licensing agreement with AMD.
Towards an Exynos 2500 designed 100% by Samsung?
This renewal could, however, be limited to a short period, since the Exynos 2400 (expected next year) would be the last to take advantage of the agreement between Samsung and AMD, note for its part WCCFTech. Its successor, the Exynos 2500, expected in 2025, would be the “ Dream Chip » (the “dream chip”) from Samsung. And for good reason, this SoC would be the first in a long time to be designed entirely by Samsung, both in terms of CPU and GPU.
This SoC would, however, have the heavy responsibility of helping Samsung to strengthen its position in the smartphone industry… notably against the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 series, but also against Apple and its “A” chips. For context, the latest A17 Pro chip in the iPhone 15 Pro does indeed have a sufficiently powerful GPU part (at least theoretically) to launch certain console games, such as Resident Evil Village or even Assassin’s Creed Mirage.
Performances which, if confirmed, would be enough to enrage Samsung. The Xclipse 920 GPU part (developed with AMD) of its Exynos 2200 had not actually reached the expected level of performance, despite an advantageous performance in ray tracing management. Compared to Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, the latest graphics solutions from Samsung and AMD also remain behind in terms of rasterization. A glass ceiling which could also concern the Xclipse 940 GPU of the next Exynos 2400… since the latter will be satisfied with more or less the same technical bases.