Are Samsung Exynos 2200 and Van Gogh the same GPU design?
At the beginning of this year, Samsung announced the launch of a new generation of mobile processors Exynos 2200 for the Galaxy S22 series of smartphones. Exynos 2200 is manufactured using Samsung’s 4nm EUV process; the CPU part is equipped with a single Arm Cortex-X2@2.8 GHz core, three Cortex-A710@2.5 GHz large cores, and four Cortex-A510@1.7 GHz small cores; the Xclipse GPU is based on the AMD RDNA 2 architecture, inheriting advanced graphics functions such as hardware-accelerated ray tracing and variable rate shading (VRS) on the PC platform, and the clock is between 1.3 GHz and 1.4 GHz; Samsung has also upgraded the NPU to double the performance and support FP16 operations.
According to data collected by Gamma0burst, the GPU of Samsung Exynos 2200 is officially named Xclipse 920, also known as MGFX0 (M0), and the follow-up product (Xclipse 930?) may be called MGFX0 (M1) or MGFX1, associated with the Van Gogh Lite firmware, Van Gogh is the codename for AMD’s APU for Steam Deck.
This shows that the GPU of Samsung Exynos 2200 may be a reduced version of Van Gogh’s GPU, with the scale reduced to 384 stream processors, but the two have the same architectural design which shows AMD’s efforts in the field of low-power GPUs. It’s unclear why the Van Gogh is paired with an x86-based CPU and the Van Gogh Lite is paired with an Arm-based mobile SoC, and the firmware data may indicate that the two GPUs share at least part of the design.
In addition, Samsung’s next Xclipse 930 may increase the number of WGPs, from three to four in the Xclipse 920, further improving performance.
