Samsung officially brings its flagship mobile processor – Exynos 2200. The processor adopts a new design, and the biggest selling point is the use of the Samsung Xclipse graphics processing unit (GPU) based on the AMD RDNA 2 architecture, and the most advanced ARM-based CPU core, which can bring users excellent Mobile gaming experience.
Yongin Park, President of Samsung Electronics’ System LSI Business, said: “Based on the most advanced 4nm EUV process and combining cutting-edge mobile, GPU and NPU technologies, Samsung has carefully crafted the Exynos 2200 to provide the best experience for smartphone users. In addition to bringing the best mobile experience to users, Samsung will continue to strive to lead the innovation journey of logic chips.”
The Xclipse GPU is a hybrid graphics processor positioned between console and mobile graphics processors. Its name Xclipse stands for Exynos’ combination of “X” and “eclipse”, indicating that the birth of the Xclipse GPU will open a new chapter.
In terms of performance, the Exynos 2200 is based on the AMD RDNA 2 architecture. Xclipse has advanced graphics functions, such as hardware-accelerated ray tracing (RT) and variable rate shading (VRS), which were previously only available on PCs and Notebooks and game consoles.
This time Exynos 2200 has added ray tracing, which can calculate and simulate real lighting effects. To further enhance it, Samsung has also partnered with AMD to enable hardware-accelerated ray tracing on mobile GPUs for the first time.
“The AMD RDNA 2 graphics architecture extends efficient, advanced graphics solutions to PCs, Notebooks, game consoles, automobiles, and now mobile phones,” said David Wang, senior vice president of AMD Radeon Technology Group. “Samsung’s Xclipse GPU is AMD’s first GPU in Exynos SoCs. The first fruit of RDNA Graphics’ multi-generational program. We can’t wait for mobile customers to experience a great gaming experience based on our technology collaboration.”
In addition, Exynos 2200 is one of the first products on the market to integrate ARM’s latest Arm v9 CPU core, and its security performance has been greatly improved.
The Exynos 2200 consists of one Arm Cortex-X2 flagship core, three Cortex-A710 large cores and four Cortex-A510 small cores, and is designed as a three-group structure for an eight-core CPU.
According to the official introduction, the upgraded NPU of Exynos 2200 can provide more powerful AI performance. Compared with the previous generation, the NPU performance is doubled, and it can also support FP16 (16-bit floating point).
The Exynos 2200 integrates a fast 3GPP Release 16 5G modem supporting mmWAVE frequency bands below 6GHz. With the support of E-UTRAN New Radio-Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) technology, 4G LTE and 5G NR signals can also be used at the same time, with a maximum speed of 10Gbps.
For the security of users’ personal data, Exynos 2200 is equipped with an integrated secure element (iSE), and the inline encryption HW of UFS and DRAM is further strengthened, enabling user data encryption to be securely shared only within the security domain.
Exynos 2200 redesigns the image signal processor (ISP) architecture to support up to 200 million pixel ultra-high resolution. The single camera supports up to 108MP resolution at 30 frames per second (FPS), and the dual camera mode supports 64MP+36MP. In addition, up to 7 independent image sensors can be linked, and 4 of them can be driven at the same time for better spot shooting.
For video recording, the ISP supports resolutions up to 4K HDR (or 8K). The Exynos 2200 features an advanced Multi-Format Codec (MFC) that can decode 4K movies at 240fps or 8K movies at 60fps, and can encode 4K movies at 120fps or 8K movies at 30fps.
In addition to this, the MFC directly integrates an efficient AV1 decoder with HDR10+ capability and longer playback time. The refresh rate of up to 144Hz is supported, and the user operation display is smoother and smoother.
