Competition from the Apple M1 will have to wait, at least in the mobile and eventual Chromebook sector where Samsung wants to go all out in the fight against Intel and AMD. The main novelty of the call Exynos 2200 is that in addition to implementing the new Cortex architecture, it will for the first time ship an RDNA 2 GPU in a SoC. The problem is that the performance and thermal data are not optimal, which would reveal what we have been hearing since some time. week: delays in its launch. Is it running so poorly or getting hot?
With the company’s advanced 4nm lithographic process, everything was supposed to be a breeze to house AMD’s iGPU. However, and through a leak, it appears to be quite the opposite. The controversy reached such an extent that Samsung itself had to publish an official press release denying it, but at the same time it does not give an arrival date for this Exynos 2200.
Samsung’s prestige and the technological race
A week and a half ago we talked about the strategy TIGER of Samsung to hit Apple on the ground that hurts the most and where it seems impossible: the United States. But this strategy is only part of the company’s overall strategy because, as we well know, they make everything from RAM chips to various sensors.
To compete with those with the bitten apple, you need a good product and anyone who wants to be one has to be powerful and innovative. Where are Samsung laptops and mobiles currently failing? Well, in its SoC, which tries to keep up with Apple, but it doesn’t reach it, especially with the M1 in the market. After this brief reasoning, one can understand why the Koreans are eager to launch the Exynos 2200, since it is the world’s first high-performance SoC to combine ARM and RDNA 2.
Falling frequencies due to temperature in the Exynos 2200
What was leaked is from Ice Universe, known in the industry for getting almost everything they reveal right, so he must have some credence when he says Samsung’s goal with AMD was to achieve 1.9 GHz in the RDNA 2 GPU. The problem is that this figure would be totally far from reality because there is a thermal problem with the chip that prevents reaching it.
The numbers that will be lowered are much lower: 1.29GHz, where arguably the worst is that this value already represents a speed where the chip would be “hot”, being literal in translation.
Therefore, the Exynos 2200 is not ready to arrive on the market where Samsung would have given up scrambling the idea of these. 1.9GHz what I wanted to achieve.
The realistic, filtered figure is to hit 1.49 GHz so as not to “give some dignity back” to the SoC, according to the comments. The purpose of this is to mitigate the disappointment of the Exynos 2100 with its iGPU, so given the advanced node of 4nm It was expected that with AMD’s help, the Galaxy and devices incorporating this new 2200 version would be on par with Apple and Intel in the gaming world. Will it finally be?
