Samsung Exynos 2200 has been one of the most anticipated news, not only for being the one that can stand up to the current Apple chip, but also for uniting the technology section of two big companies such as Samsung and AMD, the latter bringing all its know-how on the graphics cards concerned.
Ray Tracing and VRS (variable rate shading) will be two of the great novelties that the new Korean chip will bring to Android mobile devices that mount it with the red giant that has already made its presentation of AMD RDNA 2 at the time. The Xclipse 920 Graphics What does it bring? Exynos 2200 This is one of the greatest advances offered by this union between the two manufacturers.
Exynos 2200: graphic console on mobile
New SoCs presented by Samsung is the first in the market to integrate graphics based on the architecture AMDRDNA2. This architecture, launched in 2020, was tasked with being built into next-gen consoles like the PlayStation 5 as well as the Xbox Series itself.
Although in the press release published by Samsung the company did not reveal many details such as operating frequencies or GPU cores and not to mention the performance, a lot of technical information is already known from the press release of the new SoC Exynos 2200.
the Exynos 2200 is manufactured in 4nm and uses Armv9 cores. We are talking about a 8-core SoC which are divided into a Cortex-X2, plus 3 Cortex-A710 cores and the remaining four Cortex-A510 cores. In any case, we will have to see how this structure behaves during tests, since the manufacturer provides doubled performance compared to its predecessor.
GPU Xclipse 920: a GPU that rivals consoles?
In the graphic part, the Xclipse 920 graphics card will be responsible for supporting 4K displays up to 120 Hz or in Quad HD+ up to 144Hz. This GPU brings to mobile devices the functions that we currently have in a next-gen computer or console, such as Laser trace (RT) hardware accelerator and VRS (variable speed shading). In addition, the FAI of its acronym in English “image signal processor” -image signal processor- of the Exynos 2200 has been redesigned to control the sensors of up to 200 megapixels, something very important to which the photograph refers, and also the ability to decode video up to 8K at 60 FPS
The SoC presented by Samsung and in close collaboration with AMD dubbed Exynos 2200 is already a reality and is in the production phase, so it is to be expected that soon we will have the first units of mobile devices that incorporate it. The Exynos 2200 seems to be the manufacturer’s commitment to the current Apple M1, we will have to see its performance in the first units and how it leaves it in the current market situation.
Doubts also arise following rumors of delays (there have been some) and above all of the performance not so much of the Cortex cores which could be twice as fast as its predecessor, but because of its GPU. As we saw last week, the objective was to 1.9GHz, but this figure has been reduced in theory to a less graceful 1.49 GHz. We’ll have to wait for the final numbers, mainly because we don’t know if the temperature issues are mere speculation or reality, like the aforementioned performance.
