Exynos 2600 to feature a self-developed GPU designed by former Huawei engineer

An earlier leak talked about how the Exynos 2600 would fare in a bunch of popular benchmarks. While its Geekbench score isn't anything to write home about, its Xclipse 960 GPU looks promising. Apparently, this will be the first of its kind not to use RDNA IP.

The information comes from Fixed Focus Digital, a Weibo leaker (via @Jukanlosreve on X), who states the Xclipse 960 will be developed in-house by Samsung. This isn't particularly new information, and has been hinted at by an earlier leak. Samsung has supposedly roped-in a GPU expert from Huawei to help with the design.

While Samsung is no stranger to developing SoC components in-house (remember Mongoose?), designing a GPU from the ground up is cumbersome. Hence, there's a high chance of the Xclipse 960 retaining elements of the RDNA architecture. Or there's a chance of it doing a complete 180 and pivoting to a Mali-based design, like HiSilicon did with the recent Maleoon GPU found on chips like the Kirin 9020.