AMD For a long time it has no longer been directly involved in the GPU sector for smartphones, but this does not mean that this sector has not yet seen it involved. About a year ago a agreement between Samsung and AMD for the development of specific GPU solutions for mobile SoC, capable of combining high performance with very low consumption.
The fruit of this type of work should come to light not earlier than next year, but rumors are already emerging that hint at the extent of this work. There are some GFXBench benchmark results which are indicated as obtained by this new platform developed by Samsung and AMD, currently in the testing phase.
This is obviously an unconfirmed indiscretion: we do not know specifically the configuration of this new SoC, let alone what is the consumption profile that may not yet be optimized for mobile devices. What emerges are very valid results for this proposal in the 3 GFXBench tests that have been published, with average frame rates per second that are at least 50% higher than what can be obtained with the Qualcomm Adreno 650 GPU used in SoC Snapdragon 865 now on the market.
| GFX Bench | Samsung Exynos with AMD Radeon | Qualcomm Adreno 650 |
| Manhattan 3.1 | 181,8fps | 123fps |
| Aztech Normal | 138,25fps | 53fps |
| Aztech High | 58fps | 20fps |
Assuming that these data are true, the picture that emerges is that of one GPU component integrated in the future Samsung SoC of the Exynos family of undoubted level. The contribution of AMD would allow to redeem the performance of the SoC Samsung, at present a little spaced as regards maximum processing power compared to the competing Qualcomm proposal. Much remains to be done in terms of optimizing consumption, perhaps an even more fundamental element in a mobile device compared to pure speed performance.
In any case we will still have to wait: the estimates are one debut in 2021 for the first SoC equipped with AMD Radeon GPU inside, built with 5 nanometer production technology.