Samsung launches Exynos 2200 chipset with Xclipse GPU powered by AMD

Samsung has announced the Exynos 2200 SoC, which is expected to power their flagship smartphones in 2022. The Exynos 2200 features the Samsung Xclipse GPU, which is powered by AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture.

The Exynos 2200 claims to have the most cutting edge processing cores available in the market today, along with an upgraded neural processing unit. Samsung says that the Exynos 2200 aims to provide the ultimate mobile phone gaming experience, as well as enhancing the overall experience in social media apps and photography. The Exynos 2200 is built on a 4nm process.

Samsung Exynos 2200 specs and features

The octa-core CPU of the Exynos 2200 is designed in a tri-cluster, comprising a single powerful Arm Cortex-X2 flagship core, three performance Cortex-A710 cores, and four efficiency Cortex A510 cores.

The Samsung Exynos 2200 features the Xclipse GPU, which Samsung claims is a one-of-a-kind hybrid graphic processor that is positioned between the console and the mobile graphic processor.

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The Xclipse GPU features AMD’s RDNA architecture, which is also used in the company’s desktop GPUs. According to Samsung, this means the Xclipse inherits advanced graphic features like hardware accelerated ray-tracing (RT) and variable rate shading (VRS), that have only been seen on PCs and consoles so far.

The Xclipse GPU also comes with various technologies such as advanced multi-IP governor (AMIGO) that enhance overall performance and efficiency.

The Exynos 2200 also offers more powerful AI features with an upgraded NPU, which offers much higher precision with 16bit floating point operations.

The image signal processor on the Exynos 2200 has been redesigned to support high-resolution sensors of up to 200MP. The ISP supports 108MP in single camera mode, or 64MP + 36MP in dual camera mode. For video, the ISP supports recording up to 8K footage, or up to 4K with HDR.