Samsung Will Part Ways with AMD
Morrissey Technology – After several generations of Exynos chips using GPUs with AMD RDNA architecture, Samsung is said to be starting to use its own GPU in the Exynos 2600. According to a leak from Roland Quandt, the Exynos 2600 will use a Samsung GPU and not an RDNA GPU from AMD. However, the Exynos 2600 will only be released in 2026, and should only be used in the Galaxy S26 line.
Meanwhile, the Exynos 2500, which will be released in 2025, will still use a GPU from AMD. This chip will be used in the Galaxy S25 and S25+ range in several countries, except the United States and China. So Samsung has quite a lot of time to work on its own GPU, because the new Exynos 2600 will be released in 2026. Including optimizing its performance so that it can be equivalent to the Snapdragon chip from Qualcomm FOR4D which will be released in 2026.
Meanwhile, the Exynos 2500, which will be released in 2025, is said to be Samsung’s first application processor (AP) made by Samsung Foundry with a 3nm process. It is reported that this chip will be more efficient than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 because the Qualcomm chip is made by TSMC using the N3E (3nm) process. Samsung’s chips will be superior because they have implemented Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistors with 3nm fabrication, while TSMC will only implement GAA FOR4D when producing 2nm chips in 2025.
The use of GAA makes chip power consumption more efficient. Namely because it uses horizontal nanosheets that are stacked vertically. That way there is a “gate” that touches between each layer and can reduce power leakage, superiorly increasing the electrical signal between transistors. So in general, the application of GAA FOR4D will increase overall chip performance.