The Samsung Exynos 2200 is finally official, after weeks of confusion about its existence and doubts about its expected appearance in the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S22 line of smartphones.
The company has introduced a new high-end chipset with global releases and said it brings significant enhancements to mobile gaming, the use of social media apps and smartphone photography.
Samsung’s new flagship processor is developed with the company’s 4-nanometer EUV node (extreme ultraviolet lithography) node.
The Exynos 2200 comes with a new GPU called Xclipse, based on AMD RDNA 2 graphics technology. Samsung says the new technology is leading to “improved graphics and AI performance” during mobile gaming.
Some of the advanced features that Xclipse brings to the Exynos 2200 are hardware-accelerated ray tracing (RT) and variable rate shading (VRS).
Samsung pointed out that these features were previously only available on PCs, laptops and consoles and were the first to be seen on a portable processor.
While ray tracking produces realistic light effects for scenes rendered with images in games, flexible shading is a way to improve GPU performance.
Samsung says the inclusion of these features in their Exynos 2200 is their first appearance in the industry on a mobile processor.
Apart from this, the Xclipse GPU also comes with technologies like the advanced multi-IP controller (AMIGO) to improve overall performance and efficiency.
In addition to the improved GPU performance, the Exynos 2200 also comes with the latest Armv9 CPU cores for Armv9 mobile communications.
Samsung says it allows “greater improvements than Armv8 in terms of safety and performance.”
The Exynos 2200 is an octa-core CPU designed with a three-component structure.
It combines the Arm Cortex-X2 with a single flagship-core, efficient and efficient Cortex-A710 big-cores and Cortex-A510 small power-efficient cores.
There are, of course, some enhancements as well. The Exynos 2200 comes with an upgraded NPU or neural processing unit now that offers more powerful device-based artificial intelligence (AI).
Samsung says the new NPU is twice as fast as the Exynos 2100 and that is why it allows for “more statistics in line.”
The NPU also works in conjunction with the image processing processor (ISP) for advanced graphics. It can detect the subject in camera focus and automatically adjust settings such as color, white balance, exposure and more.
Apart from the NPU, the Exynos 2200 photography feature can handle up to 108-megapixel in single camera mode, 64 + 36 megapixel in dual camera mode, up to seven image sensors and up to 4K HDR (or 8K) resolution.
Samsung says the Exynos 2200 is already mass-produced. So we can expect to see it in the Galaxy S22 series, after all, which should mark its appearance in early February.
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