Still without revealing the complete settings, Samsung released this Tuesday (25) a new video that highlights the main news of the Exynos 2200, the company’s high-end platform that should equip the Galaxy S22, at least in some regions. The highlight goes to the Xclipse 920 GPU, based on AMD’s RDNA 2 microarchitecture, and the unprecedented features that the graphics chip will bring to smartphones.
Exynos 2200 gets video that highlights AMD GPU
The first point mentioned is exactly the Xclipse GPU, whose name derives from the mixture of the “X” of Exynos with eclipse, as the company had explained at launch, to represent the idea that the chip will mark a new era for mobile games. By virtue of using the RDNA 2 architecture, the solution brings some features seen on PCs and consoles, specifically support for Ray Tracing and Variable Rate Shading (VRS).
In short, ray tracing seeks to bring more realism to game lighting by emitting millions of rays from the player’s camera, bouncing them across the scene and performing collision calculations with objects to replicate reflections, shadows and global lighting. The technique requires high processing power and gives work to the most powerful video cards, thus leaving doubts as to the performance it should deliver on the Exynos 2200.
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One of the outputs could be VRS, which aims to alleviate GPU stress by allowing developers to dynamically reduce the details of less important areas of the scene to increase performance. Samsung also highlights the power of the CPU, equipped with the ARMv9 architecture and the new maximum performance Cortex-X2 core, and promises high efficiency with “AMIGO”, a feature that manages the components to balance performance and energy consumption.
Also mentioned are the 5G modem with speeds of up to 10 Gbps, the turbocharged NPU that promises up to 2 times more power for AI processing, support for 200 MP cameras and lag-free 108 MP photo capture, as well as compatibility with screens. 144Hz and HDR10+. The South Korean giant reinforces that the chipset is “the solution for gamers looking for a premium experience”.
Unfortunately, more precise details such as GPU specs and CPU clocks are not detailed, which would allow us to have a clearer idea of the actual performance that the new platform would offer. That said, leaks have already taken care of these points and present curious numbers, with mixed results.
Leaked tests show mixed performance
Tests released by different renowned leakers, including names like Ice Universe and Ishan Agarwalshow that the new Exynos CPU may be the weakest of this generation, while the Xclipse GPU showed potential to be the most powerful, but with controversial numbers.
Based on the company’s 4nm lithography, the 8-core CPU features a 1+3+4 configuration, with 1 Cortex-X2, 3 Cortex-A710, and 4 Cortex-A510, but goes with unknown clocks. Regardless, tests suggest that the component scores an average of 1,109 points in single-core and 3,534 points in multi-core, losing by a few hundred points to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, but being far surpassed by the Dimensity 9000.
Geekbench 5 results for some processors pic.twitter.com/y7K6mS1Wya
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) January 24, 2022
MediaTek’s chip has similar single-core performance, with 1,278 points, but shoots up in multi-core when it hits 4,410 points, almost 20% more performance, enough jump to position it very close to Apple’s A15 Bionic, which scores 4,885 points.
Unlike the CPU, the Xclipse 920 GPU has detailed settings and can be equipped with 3 Computing Units (CUs), thus bringing 192 cores and 3 Ray Accelerators for ray tracing processing. The clock is surprising for the low speed of 555 MHz, 70% lower than the 1,800 MHz speculated in the past and quite conservative, considering the history of RDNA 2 GPUs in other segments.
It seems that there is a big gap between GPU and Snapdragon8 Gen1（Aztec Ruins 143fps） https://t.co/iRNgw0x5Rd pic.twitter.com/aYo6LF9SQo
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) January 18, 2022
The solution proved to be up to 51% better than the Adreno 730 of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in computing with OpenCL, scoring 9,143 points, against 7,285 for the Qualcomm chip, but lost by more than 30% on GFXBench, which usually better reflects the performance in games. Be that as it may, new details should emerge in the coming days, especially after the launch of the Galaxy S22, which will arrive in February equipped with the novelty, albeit in few regions of the world.
