Samsung unveils Exynos 2200 • HWzone

The chip designed to compete with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Dimensity 9000 becomes official after a few slight delays and in the shadow of rumors that are not particularly flattering – with the highlight being the new graphics core from AMD

Various reports across the network have claimed the troubles Samsung is experiencing as part of the mass production of its senior Exynos chip for 2022 – ones that may require it to reach the launch of the Galaxy S22 family in a limited way as it relies solely on Qualcomm chips. We now seem to get Samsung’s official response and denial on the issue with the official release of the Exynos 2200, including a partial technical detail (which still leaves room for skepticism for us) confirming the big secret everyone already knew: the new built-in graphics core is in AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture.

The Exynos 2200 is manufactured in a state-of-the-art process equivalent to 4 nanometers by Samsung itself, which meets the nickname 4LPE and is based for the most part on advanced EUV (Extreme Ultra-Violet) processes – while in the general processing segment One large and senior Cortex-X2, three powerful Cortex-A710 cores and four more cost-effective Cortex-A510 cores, just like the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, just like the Dimensity 9000 and exactly as the ARM core designer recommends use for contemporary senior smartphones. It is in that unlike Qualcomm and Mediatek who presented their flagship chips with maximum operating frequencies set for all those cores, Samsung prefers not to disclose its frequencies – which may indicate that the hardware is still in validation and therefore it is not known to what number the Korean giant can publicly commit In front of its consumers.

Anyone who has delved into previous announcements about the flagship chips from Qualcomm and Mediatek will not be surprised by Samsung’s choice

The Exynos 2200 enjoys a built-in 5G modem that supports both “classic” sub-6 (below 6GHz) frequencies with a maximum theoretical download speed of up to 5.1 GB per second and a maximum theoretical upload speed of up to 2.55 GB Per second – and at high mmWave frequencies with a theoretical download speed of up to 7.35 gigabits per second and a upload speed of up to 3.67 gigabits per second. These are data that sound quite impressive, but in fact do not change significantly compared to the modem capabilities built into the Exynos 2100 from the beginning of last year – except for upgrading the maximum upload speed at Sub-6 frequencies all other numbers are exactly the same.

The deployment of the fifth generation of cellular is progressing slowly in many countries around the world, so it is not surprising to see that there is no interest in continuing to leapfrog in principle transfer speeds when a significant proportion of users do not yet have full coverage of the new generation in their environment.

The new chip will support LPDDR5 memories and fast storage in UFS 3.1 exclusively, will enjoy Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, will support 1440p displays with a refresh rate of up to 144 Hz and will also support 4K displays with a refresh rate of up to 120 Hz, along with 8K video decoding at a rate Up to 60 frames per second at a 10-bit sampling depth and 8K video content encoding at a rate of up to 30 frames per second at a 10-bit sampling depth – and an image processing engine that can use sensors with a resolution of up to 200 megapixels (according to Samsung’s own plan to launch such units in time Next, based on enlarged Pixel Binning arrays to provide improved quality).

Operating frequencies, storage speeds, dynamic memory controller data, computational learning accelerator capabilities – all of these are still missing

The biggest innovation is in the new graphics core of course, which gets the Xclipse 920 branding as the bread of Exynos and Eclipse with the clarification that this is a breakthrough in the field for both Samsung and AMD itself – but without any real details beyond that. It is approved to be based on the modern RDNA 2 architecture as in Sony and Microsoft consoles and as in the desktop and mobile Radeon RX 6000 cards, with support for accelerating radiation tracking calculations and VRS (Variable Rate Shading), but without mentioning operating frequencies, A possible performance envelope or even a relative improvement over past generations unfortunately.

The new graphic core continues to be a mystery – all we got as part of the official announcement is its name, actually

This is only a partial detail of the new chip’s capabilities, significantly reduced from the detail we received from the competitors about their masterpieces for 2022, but consumers in Israel should get a close acquaintance with the Exynos 2200 that will allow them to discover everything Samsung did not donate itself – since by all indications The plan is to once again make a division between Snapdragon chips and Exynos chips in the Galaxy S22 family geographically, with Israel officially receiving the home-developed version from the Korean manufacturer and not the version courtesy of Qualcomm. We will continue to follow and provide details on the matter in the near future.