If I ask you which Samsung’s flagship device will you purchase - the one with Exynos or the one with a Snapdragon inside -, well, we all know the answer: for most of you, the Snapdragon variant is the obvious choice.
Samsung Galaxy flagship smartphones like its “S” series with the Exynos chipset never performs well after a certain time, with reported system lag, graphic problems, issues with the heating of the device, something that keeps occurring after a couple of years. You can see a video explaining why people don't like them here (Android Central).
Well, that is going to change from now onward (most probably). Samsung has finally announced its home grown processor Exynos 2200. Now you may ask, what is new with this one? So, for your information, this is the System on a Chip (SoC) to include a GPU with AMD’s RDNA 2 graphics architecture (better known for powering the next-gen graphics on the Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, and AMD’s RX 6000-series graphics cards), which enables features like hardware-accelerated ray tracing (ray tracing is a feature capable of tracking the rays of light backwards to its source).
Though you cannot expect major graphic improvements like the ones on NVIDIA or AMD’s graphic cards for desktop, however, there will likely be some improvements in graphics, along with whatever other upgrades Samsung has up its sleeve for the E-2200.
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The Exynos 2200 (E-2200) is manufactured on Samsung’s 4nm EUV (Extreme Ultraviolet lithography) process. Samsung has branded this GPU as Xclipse. Let’s now see the CPU side of E-2200 - it runs on Armv9 cores: 1 high-powered Cortex-X2, 3 Cortex-A710 cores for balanced performance, and 4 more efficient Cortex-A510 cores.
There’s also an upgraded NPU (Neural Processing Unit) which gives two times the performance of its predecessor, and its architecture is said to support camera sensors of up to 200 megapixels (yikes)!!
Samsung’s highest end chipsets are usually installed in the company’s flagship Galaxy S series, but models sold in US and other country’s markets will still be using Snapdragon’s chipset. Also, Samsung never marketed E-2200 chipset anywhere until now, it is to be believed that the performance of the E-2200 is still not on par and few more tweaking is left to do before the final product launch. And only then we can expect the chipset's benchmark scores comparison.
What do you all think about Exynos 2200? What do you all expect from it? Will you now be comfortable buying a Samsung S series smartphone with the Exynos chipset or will still choose Snapdragon over it?
I'll keep updating this thread with more details as they are announced.
