Partnership on Next-Generation Graphics Processor Technology
Leveraging AMD Graphics IP in Next-Generation Mobile SoCs
Expected effects of convergence with Samsung Electronics' SoC technology

Samsung Electronics announced on the 3rd that it has formed a strategic partnership with AMD regarding ultra-low power and high-performance graphic design assets (IP).

Samsung Electronics plans to lead innovation across the mobile market, including smartphones, by strengthening its graphics technology capabilities through a licensing agreement with AMD.

With this partnership, AMD will provide custom graphics design assets that can be used in mobile devices and applications based on its latest graphics design assets, the RDNA (Radeon DNA) architecture, and Samsung Electronics will pay licensing fees and royalties.

RDNA is the next-generation high-performance gaming graphics architecture unveiled by AMD at Computex 2019. It is expected to provide high performance, power, and memory efficiency in a smaller package compared to the previous generation GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture.

It is expected to deliver up to 1.25x better performance per clock and up to 1.5x better performance per watt than GCN12, enabling improved gaming performance and reduced latency at lower power.

“We have formed a partnership to develop groundbreaking graphics products and solutions that will revolutionize the next-generation mobile market,” said Kang In-yup, President and Head of System LSI Business at Samsung Electronics. “Together with AMD, we will accelerate innovation in mobile graphics technology that will lead to a new level of computing.”

“Adoption of the latest Radeon graphics technologies is growing across PC, game console, cloud and high-performance computing markets,” said AMD CEO Lisa Su. “This strategic partnership will extend our high-performance Radeon graphics solutions into the mobile market, thereby expanding the Radeon user base and development ecosystem.”