Samsung Galaxy S22 could be a gaming powerhouse

Samsung Galaxy S22 could be a gaming powerhouse — here'south why

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The Samsung Galaxy S22 could go high-end gaming features found on the PS5 and Xbox Series 10 cheers to its partnership with AMD.

Speaking at Computex 2021, AMD CEO Lisa Su delved into the plans for the visitor'due south RDNA2 architecture — as seen in the two next-gen consoles — and revealed that the tech would also exist coming to Samsung's Exynos chipset. That could bring features such as ray tracing to the Milky way S22, which should help it carve out a place amongst the upper echelons of the best gaming phones.

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In the keynote speech, Su revealed that features such as "ray tracing and variable rate shading capabilities" would be coming to "high operation mobile devices"; the Galaxy S22 would clearly qualify as 1 of those, every bit will the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and the Galaxy Note 21, if the latter device actually always appears.

Samsung smartphones are typically powered by either the house's proprietary Exynos chipset or Qualcomm'southward Snapdragon SoC, depending on the region the hardware is launching in. While we nosotros don't withal know whether Samsung will switch to using just Exynos for the Galaxy S22, the extra grunt information technology could offer might well make information technology a tempting move.

Samsung has had its optics on the mobile gaming market for a while, partnering with Microsoft to bring Game Laissez passer to final twelvemonth's Galaxy S20 series. Plus, with the PS5 and Xbox Series Ten still in brusk supply, unlocking side by side-gen gaming features on a future smartphone kitted out with Game Laissez passer would make a lot of sense.

Samsung will hopefully impact the finer details at its next Unpacked event: the tech giant should take a summer issue pencilled in to reveal its upcoming foldables: the Galaxy Z Fold iii and Milky way Z Flip 3.

Meanwhile, Su likewise appear that the RDNA2 tech will exist rolling out in the Tesla Model Ten and Model S, giving the electric cars some seriously impressive gaming chops of their own.

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Shabana is T3'southward News Editor covering tech and gaming, and has been writing about video games for almost a decade (and playing them since forever). As well as contributing to Tom's Guide, she's had bylines at major gaming sites during her freelance career before settling downwardly at T3, and has podcasts, streaming, and video content under her belt to kick. Exterior of work, she too plays video games and should really think about expanding her hobbies.