At Computex 2021, AMD announced that the popular RDNA2 architecture of PS5 and Xbox will end up on electric cars but also on Samsung's smartphones
At Computex 2021 in Taipei, which from today until Saturday, June 5, will host announcements, prototypes and possible developments in the field of technology, AMD announced several key information on the evolutionary direction of the RDNA2 architecture, already the basis of the AMD RX 6000 graphics chips in PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.
During the first day of the event, AMD CEO Lisa Su announced that RDNA2 technology will be used in a number of electric cars including the Tesla Model S and Tesla Model X, respectively a sedan and SUV from Elon Musk's celebrated manufacturer. Teslas are already using AMD's Ryzen chips, which will be joined in the near future by RDNA2 GPUs that will bring AAA video games into the car to entertain passengers or even the driver while the car is stopped. The power of this graphics chip is amazing: RDNA2 will bring with it a computing capacity that can touch 10 teraflops, completely in line with the 10.28 teraflops that is currently capable of developing Sony's Play Station 5.
The RDNA2 GPU on Samsung
But among the most interesting passages of AMD's statements is the one that concerns "high-performance mobile devices", i.e. top of the range smartphones. And when we talk about high-performance mobile devices we can only think of Samsung with its Galaxy S, which in fact - according to the AMD CEO - will benefit from RDNA2 GPUs.
The AMD technology shows therefore to be extremely flexible, being able to adapt to high-end technological products of different extraction, such as game consoles, cars and smartphones, having among the short-term projects the landing in Samsung Exynos chips that equip the top of the range smartphones sold in Europe and other regions.
The innovation promises to bring to smartphones - by Samsung initially, but we can imagine that the Korean manufacturer will not remain alone - operations such as ray tracing and shadows at variable refresh rate that require great capabilities in terms of graphics processing, but after all nothing or almost nothing is impossible to a high-performance GPU derived from the console world as the one that employs the architecture RDNA2 by AMD.
Samsung's upcoming smartphones will use RDNA2, which AMD has revised to increase efficiency through a new Infinity Cache on-chip that allows you to combine high performance, and ray tracing for example needs a lot of power, with reduced power consumption.
In other words RDNA2 is an architecture "scalable" on devices of different extraction, able to remain efficient despite the computing capacity above average. Samsung certainly needs it since over the years its Exynos chips have often proven inferior to the peers of world leader Qualcomm, both in terms of computing power and energy efficiency.
The Snapdragon 888, the top-of-the-line SoC for 2021, has proven superior to Samsung's rival Exynos 2100 in particular in graphics processing, so the adoption of an RDNA2 GPU can only benefit Samsung.