Samsung officially released the Exynos 2200, Xclipse GPU with RDNA 2 architecture
Samsung today announced the launch of its next-generation mobile processor, the Exynos 2200. As a newly designed product, it is manufactured with Samsung’s 4nm EUV process, equipped with Samsung Xclipse GPU based on AMD RDNA 2 architecture, as well as CPU cores and upgraded NPU based on the Arm architecture. Samsung said that the Exynos 2200 will enable the ultimate mobile gaming experience, and confirmed that the Exynos 2200 is currently in mass production.
“Built on the most advanced 4-nanometer (nm) EUV (extreme ultraviolet lithography) process, and combined with cutting-edge mobile, GPU and NPU technology, Samsung has crafted the Exynos 2200 to provide the finest experience for smartphone users. With the Xclipse, our new mobile GPU built with RDNA 2 graphics technology from the industry leader AMD, the Exynos 2200 will redefine mobile gaming experience, aided by enhanced graphics and AI performance,” said Yongin Park, President of System LSI Business at Samsung Electronics. “As well as bringing the best mobile experience to the users, Samsung will continue its efforts to lead the journey in logic chip innovation.”
Samsung says the Xclipse GPU is a one-of-a-kind hybrid graphics processor that Xclipse represents the combination of the words “X” and “eclipse” from Exynos, heralding the end of the old days of mobile gaming with the Xclipse GPU and marking the beginning of an exciting new chapter.
The Xclipse GPU is based on the AMD RDNA 2 architecture and inherits advanced graphics capabilities such as hardware-accelerated ray tracing and variable rate shading (VRS) on the PC platform. Ray tracing is a revolutionary technology that produces realistic lighting effects for graphically rendered scenes by simulating the physical behavior of light in the real world, calculating the motion and color properties of light as it bounces off surfaces. In the past two years, ray tracing technology has attracted the attention of many game fans. Samsung has partnered with AMD to implement the industry’s first hardware-accelerated ray-tracing function on mobile GPUs, which can provide an immersive user experience for mobile devices.
The Exynos 2200 uses a tri-cluster structure in the CPU part, equipped with a single Arm Cortex-X2 core, three Cortex-A710 large cores, and four Cortex-A510 small cores. Samsung has also upgraded the NPU, doubling the performance and supporting FP16 operations. The Exynos 2200 integrates a 3GPP Release 16 5G modem that supports sub-6GHz and mmWave frequency bands with speeds up to 10Gbps. Additionally, the Exynos 2200 is equipped with an Integrated Secure Element (iSE) to store private encryption keys.
This time Samsung has redesigned the Image Signal Processor (ISP) of the Exynos 2200 to support the latest image sensors and achieve ultra-high resolutions of up to 200 MP. At 30 fps, the single camera is up to 108 MP, and the dual camera is up to 64MP and 36 MP. The new ISP can connect up to 7 independent image sensors and drive 4 simultaneously. For video recording, up to 4K HDR or 8K resolution is supported. Through the NPU, the ISP utilizes an advanced content-aware AI camera, based on machine learning and scene recognition, to make optimal settings in terms of color, white balance, exposure, dynamic range, etc., to obtain refined and realistic photo effects.
Equipped with an advanced Multi-Format Codec (MFC), the Exynos 2200 can decode 4K video at 240 fps, or 8K video at 60 fps, and encode at 120 fps and 4K resolution or 30 fps and 8K resolution. The MFC also integrates an AV1 decoder with HDR10+ capability, offering refresh rates up to 144Hz.
Samsung will hold “Galaxy Unpacked 2022” on February 8, and release three models of Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22 Plus, and Galaxy S22 Ultra. According to the original plan, the Galaxy S22 series will be divided into two platforms: Samsung Exynos 2200 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Samsung is rumored to use the Exynos 2200 in Europe and South America, and the Snapdragon platform in North America, China, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, India, and South Korea.
