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Samsung announces Exynos 2200 with AMD "Xclipse" GPU
Now, the Exynos 2200 is finally official. The headline feature is a new "Samsung Xclipse 920 GPU" that was co-developed by AMD. Samsung says the GPU uses AMD's RDNA 2 architecture, the same as AMD's Radeon desktop GPUs, and will bring "hardware-accelerated ray tracing" to mobile devices.
David Wang, the SVP of AMD's Radeon division, said, "Samsung's Xclipse GPU is the first result of multiple planned generations of AMD RDNA graphics in Exynos SoCs." Previous reports have indicated that Samsung isn't just eyeing smartphones but eventually wants to put together an Apple M1-fighting ARM laptop chip.
The CPU is about what you would expect from a 2022 ARM chip. The 4 nm SoC has one Cortex X2 CPU for single-threaded performance, three Cortex A710 cores, and four low-power Cortex A510 cores, just like Qualcomm's 2022 chip, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. These are all new ARM v9 cores, with the X2 and little cores both being 64-bit only.
Despite finally announcing the Exynos 2200, Samsung's announcement does not put to bed any questions about a troubled development of the Exynos 2200. The press release and product site are both lacking many of the details that are typically disclosed at this point. For instance, Samsung has not made any performance claims about the Exynos 2200 CPU or GPU. If you read through the Exynos 2100 press release from this time last year, you'll see claims like 30 percent better CPU multi-core performance and 40 percent faster graphics.
Leaks have pointed to thermal issues with the Exynos 2200 which could potentially lead to lower performance than its main competitors: Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, MediaTek's Dimensity 9000, and Apple's A15.
Also at The Verge, SamMobile, and Bloomberg.
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(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Wednesday January 19 2022, @05:10PM (2 children)
I am absolutely excited about how many new Unobtainium chips were announced lately. That surely helps to ease our anxiety resulted from chips scarcity on a real market.
Keep us dreaming!
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday January 19 2022, @10:48PM (1 child)
These chips were always destined for a phone or other mobile device. You weren't going to be building your next computer with it.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @10:57PM
Shame, they'd make a nice 5G GNU/Linux laptop.
A pity they're bound up with Google Android crapware.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @07:23PM (1 child)
My slave squeezes my sack all day long when I recline. I'm lovin it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @07:33PM
> I'm lovin it.
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