At the Computex 21 keynote address, AMD has revealed a bunch of new and exciting stuff coming from team red.
One of the reveals is AMD putting its RDNA 2 graphics cards to more than just PCs and consoles. They are putting it in smartphones and… cars?
For whatever reason, AMD will power the Tesla Model S and Model X with a discrete RDNA 2-based GPU so you can play AAA games. In your electric car. The two Tesla models also have AMD Ryzen APU powering the infotainment system.
Tesla has a gimmick where you can use the huge infotainment screen to play games and control games with the actual steering wheel before. But have the car be a mobile gaming rig? What a peculiar move.
Speaking of mobile gaming, a more understandable announcement is AMD partnering with Samsung to provide custom IPs for the smartphone maker’s next flagship SOC. The RDNA 2 based tech will allow Samsung’s chips to implement ray-tracing and variable rate shading capabilities.
More details on the Samsung’s next flagship SOC will be revealed later this year.
With its gaming products, AMD has a strong foothold on the console space, with the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles using Ryzen and RDNA-based processors. It’s interesting to see them expanding into mobile and… try something with cars.
The keynote also see a few other announcements including a new 3D chiplet technology (with the new Ryzen 5000 Series of processors making use of it), new Ryzen 5000-G desktop APUs, and AMD Radeon 600M Series Mobile Graphics for gaming laptops.