For 3 years, the portable-stationary Nintendo Switch has become one of the most popular consoles (55.77 million copies as of March 31, 2020). Despite the rather low productivity, the developers are interested in the console due to the wide audience and sometimes surprise with the transfer of seemingly excessive games for it. It is reported that in Switch 2, Nintendo will refuse to cooperate with NVIDIA and will switch to the platform created by Samsung and AMD.
In June 2019, these companies announced strategic agreement on using AMD graphics in Samsung mobile processors, as it turned out quite profitable for an American company. Soon became knownthat such solutions will be used not only in the field of smartphones and tablets, however, the first products are expected only in the middle of 2021. In November, Samsung denied from Mongoose’s own processor cores in favor of ARM cores close to the reference.
But the most important thing in this agreement is AMD’s return to the mobile graphics market after Dirk Meyer, the new CEO of Dirk Meyer, conducted optimization in January 2009 and sold Qualcomm the “unpromising” Imageon unit that released Adreno graphics for PDAs for $ 65 million
Perhaps, the first fruits of cooperation between Samsung and AMD still will not have to wait long: according to the latest unofficial dataSamsung’s AMD RDNA graphics accelerator, developed by order, already demonstrates a half-fold superiority over the Qualcomm Adreno 650.
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It is speculated that AMD intends to seize the last important market share in the game consoles and, together with its South Korean partner, is aimed at supplying a platform for the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2. In addition to its rather high performance, the use of RDNA will make the development and porting of games for Switch more unified, thanks to its proximity to the Xbox and PlayStation graphic architecture. Although the gaming giant has not yet publicly announced its intention to introduce the heir to the now popular Switch, this day will inevitably come.
The NVIDIA Tegra X1 had impressive performance at the time of its release in 2015, but since then the giant in the field of graphics technology has not made much progress in the production of consumer ARM chips, having only the 16-nm Tegra X2 chip introduced in the distant 2016. Apparently, Nintendo will be forced to find a new processor, and Samsung’s Exynos with AMD’s graphics accelerator may indeed be the only option by then.
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