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Samsung has officially announced their flagship phone chipset for 2022, the Samsung Exynos 2200.
At the moment, they have only provided a small amount of information, they have not released detailed frequency specifications, so this comparison is a little bit vague.
Samsung Exynos 2200 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs Mediatek Dimensity 900 Specification Table
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CPU & Fabrication
The chipset was developed on the 4nm Samsung fabrication process and used the same CPU cores as both Qualcomm and Mediatek.
They have not revealed the core count but it is safe to assume it will be 1x3x4 just like the other two chipsets.
They also have not stated the frequencies, but early Geekbench revealed that they would be 3Ghz, 2.5Ghz and 1.8Ghz, which is identical to the Qualcomm chipset but a touch behind Mediatek.
GPU
The key feature of the Samsung Exynos 2200 is the Samsung Xclipse 920 GPU. As expected, this is a new GPU that has been developed with AMD RDNA 2 architecture as its backbone. The Xclipse inherits advanced graphic features such as hardware-accelerated ray tracing (RT) and variable rate shading (VRS) that were previously only available on PCs, laptops and consoles.
Qualcomm continues to use their Adreno based GPU, while Mediatek is using the latest ARM Mali-G710 MC10.
The Xclipse 920 GPU could be a make it or break it moment for Samsung. The flagship Exynos chipset has been floundering behind Qualcomm for the past few years, and now Mediatek is catching up to the big boys.
NPU
Interestingly, Samsung has dropped down to a dual-core NPU.
However, Samsung state that the NPU’s performance has doubled compared to its predecessor, allowing more calculations in parallel and enhancing the AI performance.
The NPU now offers much higher precision with FP16 support in addition to power-efficient INT8 and INT16.
Both Qualcomm and Mediatek continue to make improvements with their NPU’s and recently the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 shot to the top of the charts of some AI benchmarks scoring 86% higher than the recently launched Google Tensor and 172% higher than the previous generation Snapdragon 888.
Overall
At this point the specification doesn’t reveal a great deal of information. We knew most of this information anyway.
The Qualcomm has already been benchmarked and I am hoping to review a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 phone next month to provide my own set of data.
It is the Samsung Xclipse 920 GPU performance that is important. Not just the peak numbers but its ability to sustain performance and also the impact on the battery.
It is worth mentioning that the Exynos 2200 supports AV1 decoding, this is something Qualcomm does not support, but Meditek does.
The Samsung Galaxy S22 series is due to launch in early February. Currently, it is expected to be either the 8th or 9th.
Never again will I buy a Samsung with exynos. Junk