Samsung Confirms RDNA2-based Exynos 2200 iGPU Will Support Ray Tracing

[P4-630]

because the joke didn't land well at all.

Seems no one got it that way....

 

[awesomesauce]

It Too early for cellphone market but i guess you need to start somewhere

wonder what game gonna add it first fortnite?

 

[Guwapo77]

Seems no one got it that way....

Yeah...back to the drawing board.

 

[trsttte]

Great, i'm sure we'll all be amazed by the 4 or 5 extra realistic reflections on our 6'' screens

 

[seth1911]

Ray Tracing with Candy Crush, there are 99,95% only F2P give me ya Money Trash Games out there for Smartphones,
but now it have 10x times more Power than a PS Vita SoC.

But Vita and Nintendo 3DSXL have real Games, not only F2P Jumk

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

Good for AMD, they need more revenue streams so they can better compete with intel who spends 6.5x more on R&D than they do.....anything good for AMD is good for all of us with respect to ensuring more competition in the CPU space.

 

[qlum]

Makes sense that it supports ray-tracing, as RT is simply part of the core architecture.
It not having RT would basically mean they have to lock it out deliberately, or modify rdna2 to go without ray tracing, neither make much sense.
Therefore, the chip has ray tracing support. I however remain skeptical about how useful such a severely cut down version of the chip will be when it comes to ray tracing

 

[Exyvia]

Why would you want Ray tracing at like a absurdly low paths traced, and would you even noticed those reflections in a 6" screen? Not to mention the heat generated would mean degradation to the battery.

 

[First Strike]

Let's put its absurdity this way:

Suppose NVIDIA is going to add raytracing to MX150. What would be your thought?

 

[wolf]

Let's put its absurdity this way:

Suppose NVIDIA is going to add raytracing to MX150. What would be your thought?

RDNA2 has this hardware capability baked in already, they'd have to actively remove it if they didn't want it. I doubt it'll get used, but it's there.

Nvidia's entire lineup will eventually all be based on Ampere (or beyond) and support RT too, irrespective of the performance envelope that each part occupies.

I'm not sure what your point is?

 

[bug]

... I however remain skeptical about how useful such a severely cut down version of the chip will be when it comes to ray tracing

RT is a bit like the electric motor here. It will be great when we completely switch. Before that, we are stuck with hybrids which pack both motors/rendering engines and we get the problems for both.
So yeah, not every individual step may make sense on its own. But that's ok, as long as we are going in the right direction.

 

[las]

Who cares tho? Ray tracing on low-end hardware, come on.

 

[bug]

Who cares tho? Ray tracing on low-end hardware, come on.

Wanna bet it's going to hailed as the Second Coming when Apple introduces it?

 

[las]

RT adds more fire and even a car

 

[renz496]

Wanna bet it's going to hailed as the Second Coming when Apple introduces it?

imagination have their dedicated hardware for RT since 2014. and yet we never really see apple to push RT because they know it will be useless on mobile. maybe they will once 5w SoC can at least reach RTX2060 performance.

 

[Minus Infinity]

So people actually game on phones!

 

[bug]

So people actually game on phones!

Let's not jump to conclusions. Maybe the plan is to ray-trace the app drawer

 

[First Strike]

RDNA2 has this hardware capability baked in already, they'd have to actively remove it if they didn't want it. I doubt it'll get used, but it's there.

Nvidia's entire lineup will eventually all be based on Ampere (or beyond) and support RT too, irrespective of the performance envelope that each part occupies.

Samsung is buying IP cores not finished dies from AMD. Removing stuff from design is easy as long as they have the permit. Qualcomm's entire career is about how to actively remove stuff from ARM reference IP cores. What they are making is cost-sensitive, and by removing hardware RT accelarator they can cram in something else.

MX450 is Turing and MX450 still have no RT. Superbook GPU is also cost-sensitive. Doubt NVIDIA will do that in the next gen after Ampere.

 

[Aquinus]

RT adds more fire and even a car

You know what they have in common? They're both on fire. That's something Samsung is good at.