Samsung has announced their new in-house mobile processor for smartphones, the Exynos 2200. It comes with a new GPU system involving AMD’s RDNA 2 graphics architecture.
The Exynos 2200 comes with new ARM-based CPU cores, an upgraded neural processing unit, and the aforementioned AMD GPU that is based on Samsung Xclipse. The Xclipse GPU is a graphic processor that is positioned between a console and a mobile graphics processor. With the AMD RDNA 2 architecture as its backbone, the Xclipse inherits advanced graphic features such as hardware accelerated ray tracing, and variable rate shading that were only available in PCs and consoles.
“AMD RDNA 2 graphics architecture extends power-efficient, advanced graphics solutions to PCs, laptops, consoles, automobiles and now to mobile phones. Samsung’s Xclipse GPU is the first result of multiple planned generations of AMD RDNA graphics in Exynos SoCs,” said David Wang, Senior Vice President of Radeon Technologies Group at AMD. “We can’t wait for mobile phone customers to experience the great gaming experiences based on our technology collaboration.”
The Exynos 2200 is one of the first in the market to integrate Arm’s latest Armv9 CPU cores which over a substantial improvement over Armv8 in terms of security and performance. The octa-core CPU of the Exynos 2200 is designed in a tri-cluster structure made up of a single powerful Arm Cortex X2 flagship-core, three performance and efficiency balanced Cortex-A710 big-cores and four power-efficient Cortex A510 little-cores.
The updated NPU meanwhile on the Exynos 2200 has double the performance compared to it’s predecessor, allowing more calculations in parallel and enhancing the AI performance.
For safekeeping, the Exynos 2200 comes with Integrated Secure Element (iSE) to store private cryptographic keys as well as to play a role as RoT (Root of Trust). Also, an inline encryption HW for UFS and DRAM has been reinforced to have user data encryption safely shared only within the secure domain.
The Exynos 2200’s image signal processor architecture has been redesigned to support the latest image sensors for ultra-high resolution of up to 200 megapixels. At 30 frames-per-second, the ISP supports up to 108MP in single camera mode, and 64 + 36 MP in dual camera mode. 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.
The Exynos 2200 is currently in mass production. To learn more about the Exynos 2200 click here.
Source: Samsung
