After postponing the announcement of its new processor, which should have taken place on January 11, Samsung finally presented the Exynos 2200 shortly before the arrival of the Galaxy S22.
Samsung has suddenly unveiled its new high-end processor for smartphones, the Exynos 2200. Engraved in 4 nm, it will directly compete with the SQualcomm napdragon 8 Gen 1 and the MediaTek Dimension 9000. The Exynos 2200 is not a chip like the others, since it was designed in partnership with AMD.
Indeed, the Exynos 2200 hasa custom Xclipse 920 GPU, based on theAMD’s RDNA2 architecture. It is this same architecture that we find in the new PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles. This notably allows the chip to be compatible with in-game ray-tracing as well as with variable rate shading (VRS), which allows to manage in real time the quality of the shadows according to the area of the image in order to save resources.
Samsung does not give many details on the performance of its chip
This year, Samsung strangely does not highlight all the technical characteristics of its chip. It could be because the Korean manufacturer throttled its chip before launch due to overheating issues.
The Exynos 2200 is known to use as its rivals a 1+3+4 configuration with the ARM V9 architecture, with a heart headlight » Arm Cortex X2. It is followed by three fat “Cortex-A710 cores that are ” balanced in terms of performance and efficiency “, while four ” small » Low-power Cortex-A510 cores complete the processor. However, unlike in previous years, Samsung does not give any details on the frequencies of each core.
The chip also features an Image Signal Processor (ISP) capable of handling cameras up to 200 megapixels for photos. It is also possible to connect up to seven image sensors and use up to four at the same time. You should also be able to save 8K videos at 30 frames per second, and the chip can decode 8K video at up to 60fps or 4K video at up to 240fps. We can also note the possibility of supporting QHD + screens up to 144 Hz and decoding streams AV1.
On the connectivity side, the chip uses a fast 3GPP Release 16 5G modem supporting spectrum bands sub-6GHz and mmWave (millimeter wave), and can aggregate 4G LTE and 5G NR networks to increase the maximum throughput up to 10 Gbps. The chip will be used for the first time in the Galaxy S22 which will be presented on February 8.
Source: Samsung
