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Samsung's Exynos 2600 just beat Snapdragon in ray tracing

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FdPros@reddit

are there even any mobile games that use raytracing? seems pointless. I find it disappointing how all these flagship mobile chips are getting faster and faster but they all still thermal throttle and struggle to maintain 60fps on genshin without active cooling.
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GumshoosMerchant@reddit

> are there even any mobile games that use raytracing? Endfield...on new iOS devices I'm not aware of any games available on Android that use RT yet
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Aw3som3Guy@reddit

Did RE:Village get ported to iOS like Assassin’s Creed or not? RE:Village uses RT in general, I would _assume_ it would also use RT on iOS.
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Realistic_Pay702@reddit

War thunder mobile was on of the first games to get ray tracing support
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Marv18GOAT@reddit

You can run pc games on Android through apps like gamehub
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Positive_Conflict_26@reddit

You ain't running a ray traced pc games through a translation layer. Computers barely run these natively on 5,000$ dedicated gpus.
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DerpSenpai@reddit

Flagship phones have iGPUs faster than most midrange Laptop iGPUs (i5s and Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7)
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gabeandjanet@reddit

Show me ONE example of an rt game running on an amdroid phone at more than single digit fps and 300p ( if that even exists) Hell you can take a light rt game like metro exodus or control that can do 60 fps even on an rtx 2060 the lowest end oldest pc gpu with rt support
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frsguy@reddit

Love the emulation scene recently. We got some great handheld and good socks. Not to mention emulation progress for more recent hardware has been improving at a fast pace.
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DerpSenpai@reddit

We need SteamOS on these chips or Windows tbh. Android is a limitation
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i5-2520M@reddit

Sure barely at 8K or 4k120, but at pedestrian resolutions you can get an okay experience with pretty affordable GPUs.
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FdPros@reddit

emulation is getting better but good luck playing without a external cooler or a non 'gaming' phone that doesn't have a built in fan
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Exist50@reddit

But doesn't Snapdragon basically crush everything else in PC emulation? So even if Exynos had a theoretical advantage there, seems pretty moot if in the best possible scenario they're still not the optimal choice.
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Warm-Cartographer@reddit

Xclipse are dark horse of emulation, not as good as those soc with mature Turnip drivers but it can match or surpass Snapdragon soc without Turnip or with partial turnip support. 
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gabeandjanet@reddit

No lol, and there won't be for many years. You need an order of magnitude more rt performance than these mobile chips have to make a viable game with it. Its not like with rasterisation where you can just render a jaggy game at lower res. Without enough rays the lighing doesnt work at all with rt, and even on desktops that are 40x more powerful the rays are traced against an approximation of the scene (lower detail bvh) than against the actual scene geometry so even there there s a ton of compromises for both reflections and lighting and shadows AND these desktop chips spend more wattage just to denoise the rt result than a mobile chip has to use for the entire phone AND these desktop chips also spend more wattage than an entire phone on getting an acceptable upscale from the already much higher internal res. Its just marketing. The mobile rt benchmarks are designed with scenes specifically made to hide the ocean wide gaps in rendering capability
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lastdyingbreed_01@reddit

Diablo has it and guess what? Exynos doesn't even support it
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Warm-Cartographer@reddit

They exist, not many though.  Also I don't think modern flagship soc struggle to run genshini, it's old game now, something like wuthering waves do stress these soc. 
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DrFeederino@reddit

Does anyone know how good are Exynos GPU drivers?
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dampflokfreund@reddit

The difference should be even more extreme in Solar Bay Extreme, which uses RT most extensively. RDNA4 is quite good at raytracing. The next Adreno needs to add BVH traversal in hardware and other optimizations to make it competitive again, they lack behind Apple and Samsung very noticeably.
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DerpSenpai@reddit

They are behind Apple, Samsung AND ARM. ARM has done RT right and has the best mobile RT GPU, crazy
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kwirky88@reddit

Can arm do something better than the ps5?
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DerpSenpai@reddit

They could if they wanted to but the issue for them is drivers and clients
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VastTension6022@reddit

At only 10% above the 8gen5, samsung is still in the same tier as qc while arm and apple are in a totally different class.
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Educational-Web31@reddit

does RDNA4 do BVH traversal in hardware?
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Jonny_H@reddit

No more than rdna2 did. The rdna4 rt cores work at 2x the rate of the rdna2 ones, and each generation added other optimizations around the RT traversal, but the tree traversal is still done in shader. But that's also not the same as "unaccelerated" - it's more a difference in *how* it's accelerated rather than fundamentally better or worse. Any performance differences are more due to how various hardware vendors prioritized area, development and power budgets than anything else.
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OwlProper1145@reddit

With RDNA4 AMD finally caught up.
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frsguy@reddit

Still maybe a generation behind id say. Though they did a nice leap from rdna 3 to 4.
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Logical-Database4510@reddit

They have dedicated RT cores now: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-9070-xt.c4229 64 RT cores on the 9070xt. Dunno how that scales down tho.
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Forsaken_Arm5698@reddit

Also Shader Execution Reordering and Dynamic Register Allocation.
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Educational-Web31@reddit

and Tensor Cores in GPU.
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Spiral1407@reddit

Cool but can anyone explain the use case here?
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FrogBiscuits@reddit

Showing off benchmark results
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lastdyingbreed_01@reddit

Scamming customers
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nibuchan@reddit

ok, beat snapdragon while using how much more energy?
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Avbpp2@reddit

It is lower since exynos 2600 is clocked way lower than snapdragon.It is 3.8 ghz.1.1 GHZ lower than snapdragon.
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LifeIsNotFairOof@reddit

Doesn't work that way, it uses samsungs "2nm" which we'll have to wait to see what the power consumption is (point in case 8 gen 1 and 8+gen1, despite being architecturally the same x2 in 8+ was clocked at 3.2 ghz and consumed way lower power than the 3 ghz 8gen1)
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LargeSinkholesInNYC@reddit

Samsung is firing on all cylinders.
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Positive_Conflict_26@reddit

Who.the.hell.cares? What does a phone even need ray tracing for? To render them gacha wifu tits better? Or for that extra shiny texture all the AI slop games have?
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JuanElMinero@reddit

Phones don't seem to have much use for it right now, but hopefully the knowledge to apply this in low power devices will translate to other portables with better suited markets.
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Warm-Cartographer@reddit

Since Exynos moved to Xclipse they always beat Qualcomm in ray tracing, vice versa is true, it's Qualcomm who is catching up, gape between E2400 and 8 gen 3 was huge compare to E2600 and 8EG5. 
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