The Samsung Exynos 2200 system-on-chip (SoC) was unveiled on Tuesday as the South Korean company’s answer to Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 SoC. The SoC includes a Samsung Xclipse GPU based on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture, and an upgraded Neural Processing Unit (NPU), said to enable the “ultimate mobile gaming experience”, as well as enhanced social media applications and photography experiences. Samsung says the Exynos 2200, which is currently in mass production, will offer PC/console-like gaming on smartphones. It is expected to power the Galaxy S22 series of smartphones in some regions.

According to a Samsung announcement, the Exynos 2200 is built on a 4 nanometer (nm) EUV (extreme ultraviolet lithography) process. The octa-core CPU will feature a triple-cluster structure with one Cortex-X2 flagship core, three Cortex-A710 large cores for performance and efficiency, and four Cortex-A510 cores for power efficiency. With the Xclipse GPU, the SoC “will redefine the mobile gaming experience, complemented by enhanced graphics and AI performance,” said Yongin Park, president of Samsung Electronics’ system LSI business.

The AMD RDNA 2 architecture on the Xlcipse GPU in the Samsung Exynos 2200 SoC will enable features such as hardware-accelerated ray tracing (RT) and variable rate shading (VRS) for PC/console-level gaming experiences in smartphones. “In addition, Xclipse GPUs are equipped with various technologies, such as Advanced Multi-IP Governor (AMIGO), to improve overall performance and efficiency,” Samsung said. The company claims that the Samsung Exynos 2200 is one of the few SoCs on the market with Armv9 CPU cores for improved security and performance.

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