Tested: Snapdragon-powered Android phones just got a lot faster at ray tracing

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority

Smartphone ray tracing is here. Well, sort of. We don’t have any actual mobile games with ray tracing support yet; we’re still waiting patiently. But we do have Android phones with hardware ray tracing capabilities and benchmarks to test these graphics number crunchers.

The popular 3DMark benchmarking suite has just received its first ray tracing test — Solar Bay. We’ve grabbed the app and three flagship smartphones packing the currently available mobile ray-tracing chipsets — the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, Dimensity 9200, and Exynos 220 — to test it out and see where the handsets stack up.

Author: Robert Triggs. [Source Link (*), Android Authority]

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