Samsung unveils Exynos 2200 chip with Xclipse graphics based on AMD RDNA 2

Samsung unveils Exynos 2200 flake with Xclipse graphics based on AMD RDNA ii

The Exynos 2200 uses a 4nm process and boasts hardware-accelerated ray tracing

Samsung Exynos 2200

Samsung announced its latest mobile processor, the Exynos 2200, sporting a new graphics processing unit of measurement (GPU) using AMD's RDNA ii compages dubbed 'Xclipse.'

Samsung has teased plans to include AMD graphics tech in its mobile fries for a while now, and in June 2021 announced that its upcoming Exynos flake would offer ray-tracing capabilities. The Exynos 2200 delivers on that promise with hardware-accelerated ray tracing in Xclipse.

Ray tracing, for those unfamiliar with the tech, attempts to simulate how light physically behaves. In video games, ray tracing tin help produce more than realistic-looking lighting effects, including low-cal that can bounce off cogitating surfaces. However, so far ray tracing has proven to be difficult for GPUs to handle and often brings a meaning functioning hit compared to other lighting solutions.

However, it'south impressive to see the technology come to mobile chips. It'll exist interesting to come across how well it works in practise. Moreover, Samsung shared this surprisingly weird video touting the capabilities of the Exynos 2200 GPU:

Aside from the benefits of AMD RDNA 2 and ray tracing in Xclipse, the Exynos 2200 bit sports other benefits. Samsung says the chip uses a 4nm extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) process and is one of the get-go in the mark to integrate Arm'south latest ARMv9 CPU cores. The ARMv9 cores offer a significant improvement over ARMv8 in both operation and security.

Specifically, the octa-core Exynos 2200 sports a tri-cluster structure with a single ARM Cortex-X2 core, iii performance and efficiency balanced Cortex-A710 'big cores' and four power-efficient Cortex-A510 'little cores.'

Exynos 2200 also support powerful on-device bogus intelligence (AI) thank you to an upgraded neural processing unit (NPU) and both sub-6 and mmWave 5G through an improved modem.

Finally, Samsung touted the chip'southward paradigm bespeak processor (Isp), which has a redesigned architecture that supports resolutions of up to 200 megapixels. When recording video at 30fps, the Internet access provider supports up to 108 megapixels in single photographic camera style and 64+36 megapixels in dual camera style. The Internet service provider can connect up to seven individual paradigm sensors and drive four sensors simultaneously for multi-photographic camera prepare-ups. The ISP also supports up to 4K HDR or 8K recording.

While the Exynos 2200 certainly sounds impressive, Canadians might not get to try it out. Samsung typically launches its flagship phones in Canada with Qualcomm Snapdragon fries instead of its own Exynos (usually, Exynos chips ability Samsung devices exterior of North America). Of course, we won't know for certain until devices rocking the Exynos 2200 release — for now, though, it'south probably safe to assume nosotros won't get those devices in Canada.

Those interested in learning more virtually the Exynos 2200 can bank check out all the details on Samsung'south website.

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