AMD's RDNA architecture has proven quite good and will improve even further with the arrival of RDNA2 . This GPU manufacturing architecture is so good that Samsung signed an agreement in June 2019 to integrate it into its SoCs. Adreno iGPUs leave much to be desired in terms of power, which is why they acquired the intellectual property of AMD's solution.
This collaboration between AMD and Samsung will allow to implement the integration of the RDNA-based graphics solution with the Exynos SoCs. It will leave out Qualcomm's Adreno architecture, a SoC-integrated GPU architecture that leaves much to be desired. The irony of all this is that Adreno was a solution developed by ATI and sold to Qualcomm.
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The first data from the leaked benchmark reveals a GPU based on the RDNA architecture that would offer a lot of power. Under the Manhattan 3.1 benchmark, this GPU offers a performance of 181.8FPS. To give us an idea, the Adreno 650 SoC built into the Snapdragon 865 is 13% slower.
Under Aztec benchmark software, a 58FPS rate is achieved in high quality, while in normal quality 138.25FPS is achieved. The Adreno 650 solution offers 20FPS high quality performance and 53FPS normal quality performance. So Samsung's Exynos SoC with RDNA-based integrated graphics is up to 3 times more powerful.
As we see, the Exynos SoC of ARM architecture combined with an RDNA iGPU, we will have great performance. Now we need to know what the consumption of this solution will be and the heat it will generate. We must bear in mind that these two aspects are especially critical on smartphones. The precedents, today's desktop graphics, have taken a big leap from the AMD GCN architecture they have replaced.
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Adreno is an acronym for Radeon as this is the basis of its technology.
It is very normal that RDNA2, several generations later, exceeds it by much.
The question is whether we'll see these gaming-ready SoCs on Chromebooks, Chromeboxes, GNU laptops, and gaming boxes, as well as on mobile phones and tablets for gamers, and even on some handheld console that competes with Nintendo's with Nvidia graphics equipment.