A few days late with the announcement but Samsung appears to be on track as the South Korean company has unveiled the Exynos 2200, its new in-house mobile processor for smartphones. It’s the first mobile system-on-a-chip to include a GPU with AMD’s RDNA 2 graphics architecture, enabling features like hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
The new chipset seems looks to be a big increment as far as camera goes, supporting a 200MP single camera, a 108MP single camera at 30fps, or 64MP+36MP dual cameras at 30fps. It can also connect up to seven individual image sensors and drive four concurrently for advanced multi-camera setups. For video recording, the ISP supports up to 4K HDR (or 8K) resolution.
According to Samsung, Exynos 2200 is in mass production right now, so we can expect it in some Galaxy S22 series phones which should come our way next month.
The collaboration with AMD has been in the works for a while with the two companies announcing a licensing deal in 2019, then AMD confirmed last year that Samsung’s “next flagship mobile SoC” would use RDNA 2.
On the CPU side, the Exynoss 2200 uses Armv9 cores: one high-powered Cortex-X2 “flagship core,” three Cortex-A710 cores for balanced performance, and four more efficient Cortex-A510 cores. The Exynos 2200 is expected to have more powerful on-device artificial intelligence (AI) with an upgraded NPU. The NPU’s performance has doubled compared to its predecessor, allowing more calculations in parallel and enhancing the AI performance.
