Driver Exynos 9610 Exclusive
While stock supports Vulkan 1.1, exclusive drivers bring full Vulkan 1.3 extensions, enhancing support for modern game engines.
Samsung’s own LSI division maintains internal driver branches for their foundry customers. Occasionally, these leak via firmware for unreleased devices (e.g., an early build for a canceled Galaxy A50s Pro). These are the holy grail but are unstable. driver exynos 9610 exclusive
Testing on a Samsung Galaxy A50 (Exynos 9610, 4GB RAM): While stock supports Vulkan 1
| Test | Stock Driver | Exclusive Driver | Improvement | |------|--------------|------------------|--------------| | AnTuTu v10 | 185,000 | 212,000 | +14.6% | | 3DMark Wild Life | 587 | 689 | +17.4% | | GFXBench Manhattan 3.1 (offscreen) | 18 fps | 23 fps | +27.8% | | PUBG Mobile (smooth + extreme) | 30 fps (drops to 24) | 40 fps (stable 35) | +16.7% | These are the holy grail but are unstable
Temperature during gaming increased from 41°C to 43°C—a trade-off for performance.