Samsung News: Samsung Announces The Exynos 2200 That Brings Ray Tracing To Smartphones
Samsung has been making headlines for the past 24 hours, with good reason. The company has just announced its new in-house mobile processor, the Exynos 2200. Not a big deal, right? Every year Samsung is continuously implementing improvements to their chipset. But there's something special about this particular mobile processor. It's the first mobile system on a chip that will include a GPU with AMD's RDNA 2 graphics architecture, including accelerated ray tracing features.
The collaboration between Samsung and AMD has been a long time in the making and should not come as a surprise. The two companies back in 2019 announced a licensing, and last year AMD confirmed Samsung's next flagship mobile SoC would feature RDNA 2 technology.
We know so far that the Exynos 2200 will be constructed on Samsung's 4nm EUV process. The GPU will fall under the "Xclipse" brand. A quote from David Wang, AMD SVP of Radeon GPU tech, it's " the first result of multiple planned generations of AMD RDNA graphics in Exynos SoC."
The Exynos 2200 CPU will use Armv9 cores, one high-powered Cortez X2 " flagship core," three Cortex - A710 cores balancing outperformance, four more efficient Cortex-A510 cores. NPU gets an upgrade, offering twice the performance according to Samsung. The ISP architecture is designed to support up to 200-megapixel camera sensors fully.
Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC found in Samsung Galaxy S usually dominates the US consumer market. So the question is, will the new Exynos.
