Samsung has officially announced its latest flagship in-house mobile processor yesterday, the Samsung Exynos 2200. It comes with AMD’s RDNA 2-based Xclipse 920 GPU with features such as Ray Tracing and Variable rate shading.
The chipset is built on the 4nm EUV process technology for better power efficiency. It is also one of the first processors to integrate Armv9 CPU cores, a technology similar to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC. The octa-core processor has a tri-cluster CPU structure with 1x Cortex-X2 core optimized for maximum performance, three Cortex-A710 balancing performance and efficiency, and four Cortex-A510 little cores for power efficiency.
What makes it stand out is the new Xclipse 920 GPU with the AMD RDNA 2 architecture as its backbone. It supports the features such as ray tracing and variable rate shading, as mentioned before. Ray tracing is a technology that simulates light behavior in real life, calculating the movement and color of objects as light rays bounce off surfaces providing realistic effects and immersive graphics. Variable rate shading technology, on the other hand, optimizes GPU workloads by applying lower shading rates in areas where it will not affect visuals while providing stable frame rates.
Additionally, it comes with an updated NPU that has double performance compared to its predecessor, allowing more calculations in parallel, improving the overall AI performance.
For security, the Exynos 2200 is equipped with an Integrated Secure Element (ISE) to store private cryptographic keys as well as to play a role as RoT (Root of Trust). It also works with the latest LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage.
For camera and video, it supports an image sensor of up to 200MP, up to 108MP in single camera mode, a 64 + 36 MP in dual camera mode, 8K60fps playback, up to 4K 120Hz display support, and it can connect up to seven individual image sensors and drive four concurrently for advanced multi-camera setups.
Other features of the new Exynos 2200 include 5G with both on the sub-6GHz and mmWave frequencies, WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, and Galileo.
The Samsung Exynos 2200 is currently in mass production and is expected to debut with the Galaxy S22 series sometime next month.
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