As the popularity of smartphones has increased, so too has the popularity of mobile games in the mainstream gaming market.
Today, more and more consumers want to experience their PC and console games with brilliant graphics on their mobile devices, driving up the expectations for smartphone gaming performance.
The Galaxy S23 series,
? Ray Tracing technology, which creates an immersive mobile gaming experience, on the Galaxy S23 series, was introduced at Galaxy Unpacked 2023
Ray Tracing: Level Up Your Gaming Experience With True-to-Life Graphics
Ray Tracing is the latest rendering method that manifests graphic effects in real time by tracing rays of light. The Galaxy S23 series' GPU is equipped with special-purpose hardware to accelerate these ray tracing simulations similar to a desktop GPU, displaying shadows and light reflections in mobile games in a much more realistic manner.
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'Ray Tracing is a complex simulation that traces how the optic nerve of an eye receives a ray of light after being reflected, refracted or diffracted by an object,' said Kim. 'It's very similar to how light is actually processed.'
'The previous rasterization technique is limited, resulting in awkward and inaccurate expressions,' said Joonyong Park, who managed GPU technical support and both internal and external cooperation for this new product. 'When it comes to the shadow effect, for instance, the previous method used to project an object on a scene to create a shadow map in advance and adjust that on the object again. On the other hand, Ray Tracing simulates the actual effect of how shadows are formed, which appears accurately and realistically onscreen - so users can enjoy more natural-looking graphics.'
Bridging the Gap Between Desktop and Mobile Graphics With the Galaxy S23 Series
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'In 2016, we standardized the next-generation graphics API called Vulkan released by the
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In line with the recent rising trends in cross-platform games,
Multi-Player Collaboration Driving Mobile Performance
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? Galaxy Unpacked 2023 demo content was created in partnership with Epic Games. Compared to the previous rasterization rendering method (right), the Ray Tracing method (left) simulates more realistic graphics.
Kim explained that the demo contents introduced at the Galaxy Unpacked 2023 were a team effort. 'This is an area that we've been working on in collaboration with a game engine developer and game developers,' said Kim. 'We kept making various attempts for efficient rendering. As a result, we were able to overcome challenges by reducing the number of computations while maintaining the same level of quality.'
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