Samsung Exynos 2200 system-on-chip (SoC) was unveiled on Tuesday as the South Korean company’s answer to Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC. The SoC includes Samsung’s Xclipse GPU based on AMD RDNA 2 architecture which, along with an enhanced neural processing unit (NPU), is said to enable an “ultimate gaming experience on mobile phones”, as well as an enhanced experience in social media apps. and photography. Samsung says Exynos 2200, which is currently in mass production, will offer PC/console-style gaming on a smartphone. It is expected to power the Galaxy S22 series of smartphones in some regions.
According to Samsung’s announcement, the Exynos 2200 is built on the 4-nanometer (nm) EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography) process. The octa-core CPU will have a tri-cluster structure with a Cortex-X2 flagship core, three Cortex-A710 large cores for performance and efficiency, and four Cortex-A510 cores for power efficiency. Yongin Park, President of System LSI Business at Samsung Electronics, says that with the Xclipse GPU, the SoC “will redefine the mobile gaming experience, aided by improved graphics and AI performance.”
The AMD RDNA 2 architecture on the Xlcipse GPU of the Samsung Exynos 2200 SoC will power features such as hardware accelerated ray tracing (RT) and variable speed shading (VRS) for PC/console-level gaming experience in smartphones. “In addition, the Xclipse GPU comes with several technologies such as Advanced Multi-IP Governor (AMIGO) that improve overall performance and efficiency,” said Samsung. The Samsung Exynos 2200 is one of the few SoCs on the market with Armv9 CPU cores for increased security and performance, the company claims.
The South Korean company also says that the Exynos 2200 offers more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) on the device with an improved NPU that is said to offer double the performance compared to its predecessor. It also integrates 3GPP Release 16 5G which supports both sub-6GHz and mmWave (millimeter Wave) spectrum bands. Furthermore, there is E-UTRAN New Radio – Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) which allows the modem to increase the speed up to 10 Gbps.
When it comes to photography, the Samsung Exynos 2200 image signal processor (ISP) architecture is said to support cameras with resolutions up to 200 megapixels. The ISP supports up to 108 megapixels at 30 fps in single camera mode and 64 megapixel + 36 megapixels in dual camera mode. It can also connect up to seven separate image sensors and drive four simultaneously for advanced multi-camera setups. For video recording, the ISP supports up to 4K HDR (or 8K) resolution, Samsung says. The Samsung Exynos 2200 multi-format codec (MFC) can decode videos up to 4K at 240fps or 8K at 60fps and encode up to 4K at 120fps or 8K at 30fps.
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