Saad Ullah
⬤ Samsung Electronics just unveiled its Exynos 2600 mobile processor, and it's a pretty big deal—this is the first Exynos chip packing AMD's RDNA4 architecture. The new Xclipse 960 GPU runs on what Samsung calls MGFX4, which is basically their tweaked version of AMD's graphics tech for phones. This follows the MGFX3 setup they used in the Exynos 2500.
⬤ Performance-wise, Samsung says the Xclipse 960 GPU doubles the computing muscle of the older model and cranks out 50% faster ray tracing. There's also a new trick called Exynos Neural Super Sampling (ENSS)—think of it like NVIDIA's DLSS for phones. It uses AI to pump up resolution and add extra frames when your battery's running low. Interestingly, AMD's doing something similar with their FSR4 tech, which they showed off at CES 2025 and is also exclusive to RDNA4 hardware.
⬤ The Xclipse 960 comes with 8 Work Group Processors running at up to 980 MHz—slightly slower than the previous 999 MHz, but apparently that's not the whole story. In early Geekbench 6 testing on a dev board, it scored around 22,000-22,800 points. Qualcomm's Adreno 840 sits about 10-20% higher, though final performance will depend on how phone makers actually configure everything.
⬤ Samsung and AMD started working together back in 2019, with the Exynos 2200's Xclipse 920 being their first real product. The jump to RDNA4 in the Exynos 2600 shows they're sticking with this partnership and pushing AI-powered graphics processing further into mobile chips.
Saad Ullah
