Samsung Electronics announced its new premium 5G processor for smartphones, the Exynos 2200. Based on the latest Armv9 architecture, the Exynos 2200 comes with a GPU based on AMD's RDNA 2, 5G at up to 10 Gbps, a new ISP to support 200-megapixel cameras, and an upgraded neural processing unit for more powerful on-device AI.
Samsung's Xclipse GPU is a hybrid graphic processor that is positioned between the console and the mobile graphic processor. With the AMD RDNA 2 architecture as its backbone, the Xclipse supports advanced graphic features such as hardware accelerated ray tracing and variable rate shading that were previously only available on PCs, laptops and consoles, Samsung said.
Ray tracing closely simulates how light physically behaves in the real world. Samsung has collaborated with AMD to realise what it calls the industry’s first ever hardware-accelerated ray tracing on mobile GPU.
In addition, the Xclipse GPU comes with various technologies such as advanced multi-IP governor (AMIGO) that enhance overall performance and efficiency.
The Exynos 2200 is one of the first in the market to integrate Arm’s latest Armv9 CPU cores, which offer a substantial improvement over Armv8 in terms of security and performance, Samsung said. The octa-core CPU of the Exynos 2200 is designed in a tri-cluster structure made up of a single Arm Cortex-X2 flagship-core, three performance and efficiency balanced Cortex-A710 big-cores and four Cortex-A510 little-cores.
The Exynos 2200 offers more powerful on-device artificial intelligence (AI) with an upgraded NPU, the company added. The NPU’s performance doubled compared to its predecessor, allowing more calculations in parallel and enhancing the AI performance. The NPU now offers much higher precision with FP16 (16bit floating point) support in addition to power efficient INT8 (8bit integer) and INT16.
Also, the Exynos 2200 integrates a fast 3GPP Release 16 5G modem supporting both sub-6GHz and mmWave spectrum bands. With E-UTRAN New Radio – Dual Connectivity (EN-DC), which uses both 4G LTE and 5G NR signals, the modem can boost the speed up to 10Gbps.
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.
In addition, Samsung redesigned the image signal processor architecture on the Exynos 2200 to support the latest image sensors for ultra-high resolution of up to 200 megapixels.
The Exynos 2200 is currently in mass production. The processor is expected to feature in Samsung's next S series flagship smartphone, due out in the coming weeks.
