After Delay, Samsung Unveils AMD-Powered Exynos 2200 Chip for Phones
Samsung is promising to bring video game console-like graphics to smartphones with its new Exynos 2200 mobile processor.
Samsung officially announced the chip on Tuesday, a week after the company mysteriously postponed its original unveiling for the Exynos 2200, without explanation.
The chip stands out by taking AMD’s RDNA 2 technology—which also powers the graphics on the PS5 and Xbox Series X—and packing it inside a mobile processor. AMD first teased the chip in June, heralding it as the first time the RDNA 2 architecture would expand to smartphones.
The RDNA 2 architecture can be found on the Exynos 2200 through a dedicated GPU called “Xclipse,” according to Samsung. “Like an eclipse, the Xclipse GPU will bring an end to the old era of mobile gaming and mark the start of an exciting new chapter,” it added.
The big selling points to RDNA 2 include ray tracing, which can bring realistic lighting and shadow effects to supported games. The other is a graphics optimization technique called variable rate shading, which can streamline the pixel shading across a game, freeing up GPU resources to focus on frame rate.
The Exynos 2200 was also built using a cutting-edge 4-nanometer manufacturing process, which Samsung says should help improve the battery life over the chip.
The company is certainly talking a big game with the new Exynos processor. But surprisingly, Samsung did not release any benchmarks for the chip's gaming capabilities. The product page for the Exynos 2200 simply shows a GIF for a single mobile game, PUBG New State. Samsung also didn't post any clock speeds for the chip's CPU or GPU.
It also remains unclear which phones will adopt the chip. Samsung is expected to announce the company’s next flagship
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