mRDNA outperforms all existing smartphones

The introduction of Samsung Exynos mobile SoCs with mRDNA or RDNA 2 architecture tailored to ultra-mobile products is scheduled for July. According to some indications, we will not see only one Samsung product this year, which will carry the graphics core from AMD, but there will be more SoCs equipped with it.

One that carries the ARM of the A77 cores appeared in the 3DMark Wild Life test results, and it must be said that it is not doing badly.

A score of 8134 points puts it above any known smartphone. For comparison: The most graphically powerful SoC that we can find in available android phones is HiSilicon Kirin 9000. Depending on the design of a particular phone, it achieves performance from 5499 (Huawei Mate X2) to 6036 (Huawei Mate 40 Pro +) points. A step below is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 reaching 5355 (Meizu 18 Pro) to 5823 (ZTE Nubia Red Magic 6R) points. Exynos from Samsung equipped with mRDNA graphics thus stands 35% above the most powerful version of the Kirin 9000 and 40% above the most powerful version of the Snapdragon 888.

Technologically and perhaps even more interesting in terms of marketing, this SoC graphically slightly surpasses even iPhones with the Apple A14 core, which offer performance from 7470 (iPhone 12 Pro Max) to 7671 (iPhone 12 Mini) points. Although the A14 can be faster (8507 points), it must be equipped with a 10.9 ″ iPad Air.

These are not bad results for the first ultra-mobile graphic act of the current AMD team; we can only hope that Samsung will be able to take advantage of the competitive advantage gained in this way and will not kill it, for example, with a not very successful production process. It is rumored that Samsung’s 5 / 4nm process is not nearly as difficult as the 7nm process of the same company, but at the same time it seems that the 6nm TSMC process will compete rather than the new 5nm generation in terms of energy efficiency.

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