Samsung Exynos 2200 has been one of the most anticipated news, not only for being the one who can stand up to the current apple chip, but also for uniting the technological section of two large companies such as Samsung and AMD, the latter contributing all its know-how to what graphics cards are concerned.
Ray Tracing and VRS (variable rate shading) will be two of the great novelties that the new Korean chip will bring to mobile Android devices that mount it together with the red giant that already made its presentation of AMD RDNA 2 at the time. The Xclipse 920 graphics What does he bring? Exynos 2200 It is one of the greatest advances that this union between both manufacturers has offered.
Exynos 2200: console graphics on mobile
The new SoC presented by Samsung is the first in the market to integrate graphics based on the architecture AMD RDNA2. This architecture launched in 2020 has been in charge of being integrated into new generation consoles like PlayStation 5 as well as the Xbox Series itself.
Although in the press release released by Samsung the company has not revealed many details such as operating frequencies or GPU cores and not to mention performance, there is a lot of technical information that is already known from the press release of the new Exynos 2200 SoC.
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The Exynos 2200 is manufactured in 4nm and uses Armv9 kernels. We talk about a 8 core SoC which are divided into a Cortex-X2, plus 3 Cortex-A710 cores and the remaining four Cortex-A510 cores. This structure, however, will have to be seen how it performs in tests, since the manufacturer ensures double the performance compared to its predecessor.
Xclipse 920 GPU: a GPU that rivals consoles?
In the graphic section, the Xclipse 920 GPU will be responsible for supporting 4K screens up to 120 Hz or in Quad HD+ up to 144Hz This GPU brings to the mobile device functions that we currently have in a next-generation computer or console, such as Ray Tracing (RT) hardware accelerator and VRS (variable speed shading). In addition, the ISP of its acronym in English “image signal processor” -image signal processor- of the Exynos 2200 has been redesigned to control sensors of up to 200 megapixels, something very important to which photography refers, and also the possibility of decoding video up to 8K at 60 FPS or encode it to 120 FPS at 4k resolutions.
The SoC presented by Samsung and in close collaboration with AMD baptized as Exynos 2200 is already a reality and is in the production phase, so it is to be expected that we will soon have the first mobile device units that integrate it. The Exynos 2200 seems to be the manufacturer’s commitment to the current Apple M1, it will be necessary to see its performance in the first units and how it leaves it in the current market situation.
Doubts also arise as a result of rumors of delays (there have been such) and especially the performance not so much of the Cortex cores that could be twice as fast as its predecessor, but because of its GPU. As we saw last week, the objective was the 1.9GHz, but that figure was reduced in theory to a less graceful 1.49 GHz. We will have to wait for the final figures, mainly because we do not know if the temperature problems are mere speculation or a reality, such as the aforementioned performance.
