After the recent official confirmation by Samsung about the general characteristics of its next processor, including its jump to 2 nanometer lithography and the strategic decision not to integrate the modem, attention is now focused on its most promising section: the graphics. New information has shed light on the GPU that the future Exynos 2600 will have, and everything indicates that we are facing a paradigm shift in the visual power of Galaxy devices.
According to reports from Korea, the new graphics unit Xclipse 960 will be the first in the mobile ecosystem to adopt the architecture RDNA4 the AMD. However, the great novelty lies not only in the base technology, but in the execution: unlike previous generations such as the Exynos 2400 or 2500, which were co-developed, this time Samsung has done the development of the GPU in-house. The company uses AMD’s intellectual property, but has taken the reins of the design to adapt it to its needs.
More efficiency and a giant leap in Ray Tracing
The leaked technical data is revealing about the efficiency achieved with this new approach. The Xclipse 960 will have 8 work group processors (WGP), which translates into 16 compute units (CUs). The curious thing is that its clock frequency is located at 980 MHza figure slightly lower than the 999 MHz of the current generation. However, thanks to the improvements of the RDNA4 architecture (adapted as MGFX4), this lower frequency does not imply less power, quite the opposite.
It is estimated that this new graphics chip will offer a twice the performance to that of the Exynos 2500’s GPU, a massive improvement that is rarely seen between generations. Furthermore, the performance in ray tracingkey to the future of mobile video games, would be a 50% faster. This move suggests that Samsung is learning to optimize AMD’s architecture on its own, a logical first step before making the leap to a 100% proprietary graphics architecture, something rumored for the future Exynos 2800.
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