“The new premium mobile processors come with hardware-accelerated ray tracing and advanced Arm-based processing technology.”
Heaptalk, Seoul — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. launched the Exynos 2200, a new premium mobile processor. A newly designed cellular processor equipped with a Samsung Xclipse graphics processing unit (GPU) based on AMD’s RDNA 2 architecture. With the most advanced Arm®-based CPU cores on the market, the Exynos 2200’s comes with an upgraded Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and provides the most satisfying gaming experience on a smartphone, as well as an overall improvement in social networking and photographic applications.
“With a 4-nanometer (nm) EUV (extreme ultraviolet lithography) technology and cutting-edge cellular, GPU, and NPU technologies, Samsung has developed the Exynos 2200 to deliver the finest smartphone experience,” said Yongjin Park, President of Samsung Electronics’ Systems LSI Business.
Yongjin stated, “With Xclipse, our new mobile GPU based on AMD’s industry-leading RDNA 2 graphics technology, the Exynos 2200 will reinvent the mobile gaming experience through better visuals and AI performance.”
“In addition to providing people with the finest mobile experience possible, Samsung will continue to push the boundaries of logic chip innovation,” he added.
Ray Tracing with Hardware Acceleration on Their Mobile Devices
The Xclipse GPU is a unique hybrid graphics processor that sits between console and mobile graphics processors. The name Xclipse is a mix of the letter “X,” which represents Exynos, and the word “eclipse,” meaning “eclipse.” The Xclipse GPU, like the eclipse, will bring an end to the old era of mobile gaming and usher in an exciting new chapter that will give the ultimate gaming experience.
With the high-performance AMD RDNA 2 architecture as its foundation, Xclipse inherits advanced graphics technologies previously only available on PCs, laptops, and consoles, such as hardware-accelerated ray tracing (RT) and variable rate shading (VRS).
Ray tracing is a game-changing technology that precisely mimics how light behaves physically in the real world. Ray tracing generates realistic lighting effects for graphically drawn scenes by calculating light beams’ velocity and color characteristics as they bounce off surfaces. Samsung has cooperated with AMD to produce the industry’s first hardware-accelerated ray tracing on mobile GPUs to provide the most immersive visuals and user experience even on mobile devices.
Samsung uses variable rate shading, a technique for optimizing GPU workloads, allowing developers to use lower shading levels in locations where the overall quality will not be compromised. This frees up the GPU to focus on the most critical areas and boosts frame rates for more fluid gameplay.
Additionally, Xclipse GPU features an advanced multi-IP governor (AMIGO), enhancing overall speed and efficiency.
“The AMD RDNA 2 graphics architecture brings high-performance, energy-efficient graphics to PCs, laptops, consoles, automobiles, and even cellphones. “The Samsung Xclipse GPU is the first of multiple generations of AMD RDNA graphics that will be integrated into the Exynos SoC,” stated David Wang, Senior Vice President of AMD’s Radeon Technologies Group. “We can’t wait for customers to have a great gaming experience as a result of our technology partnership.”
5G Connectivity and Security is improved
Exynos 2200 is one of the first devices on the market to integrate Arm’s latest Armv9 CPU cores, which offer significant enhancements over Armv8 security and performance aspects, both of which are becoming increasingly crucial in today’s mobile communications devices.
The Exynos 2200’s octa-core CPU is developed in a tri-cluster structure, with one strong flagship-core Arm Cortex®-X2 core and three massive Cortex-A710 cores balanced in performance and efficiency, and four compact Cortex-A510 cores that are power-efficient.
“The digital experience of tomorrow raises the level of performance, security, and efficiency,” stated Rene Haas, President of Arm’s IP Products Group (IPG).
“As one of the first processors to use the new Armv9 CPU cores, Samsung Exynos 2200 leverages Arm’s Total Compute strategy and key security features, such as Memory Tagging Extension (MTE), to deliver the tailored compute and custom processing required to power the mobile experience in the future.”
Exynos 2200 also offers artificial intelligence (AI) in a more powerful device with an improved NPU. This NPU performance has doubled over its predecessor, enabling more parallel calculations and improved AI performance. It makes this NPU offer much higher precision with support for FP16 (16-bit floating point) in addition to the power-efficient INT8 (8-bit integer) and INT16.
Additionally, Exynos 2200 integrates a fast 3GPP Release 16 5G modem that supports sub-6GHz and mmWave (millimeter wave) spectrum bands. With E-UTRAN New Radio – Dual Connectivity (EN-DC), which utilizes 4G LTE and 5G NR signals, this modem performance can increase speeds up to 10Gbps.
For security, the Exynos 2200 comes with an Integrated Secure Element (ISE) for storing cryptographic keys and acting as an RoT (Root of Trust). In addition, HW inline encryption for UFS and DRAM has been strengthened so that encryption of user data is only shared securely within secure domains.
Visual experience also improved, along with Professional Quality Display
The Exynos 2200’s image signal processor (ISP) architecture has been updated to support the latest image sensors with ultra-high resolutions of up to 200 megapixels (MP). The ISP enables up to 108 MP in single camera mode and 64+36 MP in dual camera mode at 30 frames per second (fps). The ISP can connect up to seven independent image sensors for complex multi-camera configurations and drive four simultaneously. The ISP supports resolutions up to 4K HDR (or 8K) for video recording.
For smoother and more realistic results, the ISP employs an advanced content-aware AI camera in conjunction with the NPU. Machine learning-based AI cameras distinguish various objects, settings, and faces in a single image when shooting photos. The ISP then applies perfect color, white balance, exposure, dynamic range, and other settings to produce professional-quality photos.
The Exynos 2200’s sophisticated multi-format codec (MFC) brings videos to life with support for 8K quality. The MFC can read 4K at 240fps or 8K at 60fps video and encode 4K at 120fps or 8K at 30fps video. Furthermore, the MFC incorporates a power-saving AV1 decoder, allowing for longer playback times. The innovative display solution includes HDR10+, which increases visual dynamic range and depth and a refresh rate of 144Hz for a more responsive and seamless transition experience when scrolling or gaming.
