Samsung independently develops ray tracing and AI supersampling technology and will apply it to Exynos chips after 2025

【Lansheng Technology News】November 7, althoughSamsunghas been working with AMD over the past few years to bring ray tracing capabilities to its Exynos chips, recent news has revealed that Samsung appears to be developing its own ray tracing and AI Oversampling technology is planned to be applied on future Exynos chips. Just a few days ago, news broke that Samsung was working with AMD and Qualcomm to bring FSR to its phones.

According to Daily Korea, a team at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) appears to be working on two new technologies: neural ray reconstruction and neural supersampling. These technologies are expected to be available in Exynos chips after 2025. If this report is accurate, these gaming technologies may not be included in the 3nm "dream chip" Samsung is developing for the Galaxy S25 series. Reports say Samsung's ray tracing technology is superior to AMD and Nvidia's solutions because it can ray trace all parts of a scene. In contrast, AMD and Nvidia's ray tracing technology is typically only applied to parts of the game frame that reflect light.

Since ray tracing requires a lot of processing power, Samsung uses an NPU (Neural Processing Unit) for ray tracing-related calculations and uses an AI-based supersampling method (Neural Supersampling). This approach is similar to AMD's FSR and Nvidia's DLSS, which renders footage at a lower resolution and then upscales it to a higher resolution to offload the chip. Afterwards, anti-aliasing is performed on the edges of objects in the picture to make them smoother. Since these technologies have not yet been officially announced, this information should be treated with caution.

Samsungis expected to launch the Galaxy S24 in mid-January 2024, which will be the company's first AI phone, equipped with a powerful NPU chip (Exynos 2400 or Snapdragon 8 Gen 3), which can provide device-side AI processing without the need for the Internet . Additionally, the company plans to enhance the performance of the NPU to power ray tracing and supersampling tasks for future Galaxy smartphones.