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Midway through the year, AMD CEO Lisa Su confirmed that it was working with Samsung to bring ray tracing technology to phones. Samsung has now confirmed in a (now-deleted) post on Chinese social network Weibo that its upcoming Exynos 2200 flagship chipset will indeed support the technology, and has also released an image showing the difference between a regular mobile GPU and the GPU in the Exynos 2200.

As a reminder – ray tracing is an advanced method of rendering 3D graphics that simulates the physical behavior of light. This makes light and shadows look more realistic in games.

The Exynos 2200 will have a graphics chip based on the AMD RDNA2 architecture, codenamed Voyager. This architecture is not only used by the Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards, but also by the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles.

The chipset itself is codenamed Pamir, and Samsung should launch it later this year or early next year. Similar to the current flagship chipset Exynos 2100 should have one high-performance processor core, three medium-performance cores and four power-saving cores. The GPU will reportedly get 384 stream processors, and its graphics performance should be up to 30% higher than the currently used Mali graphics chips.

The Exynos 2200 is expected to power the international variants of the series models Galaxy S22, and there is also speculation about a tablet Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra.

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