Samsung Exynos 2200 is a minor upgrade compared to predecessor

The Samsung Exynos 2200 is coming to smartphones soon, complete with AMD RDNA2 graphics. Unfortunately, preliminary tests show that the chip might not be as impressive as hoped, with just a 5% bump to CPU performance and a 17% bump to GPU performance compared to the Exynos 2100. 

Samsung announced the S22 line-up during the Unpacked event a couple of days ago. As you may know, some S22 handsets will feature the Snapdragon 8 Gen1, but units sold outside of the US should feature Samsung's Exynos 2200 SoC. Samsung hasn't yet shared the official specifications of its latest Exynos chip, but ComputerBase has already shared the CPU clock speeds. In addition, TechAltar shared some comparative performance between the Exynos 2200 and its predecessor.

The Exynos 2200 numbers we got yesterday (vs. 2100) :
? 5% for CPU
? 17% for GPU
? 115% for NPU

No wonder they tried to cancel the dedicated Exynos launch event

— TechAltar (@TechAltar) February 9, 2022

According to the German website, the Exynos 2200 CPU clock is 100 MHz lower than the Snapdragon 8 Gen1's Cortex-A510 (small) cores and 200Mhz lower than the big Cortex X2 core. Based on these specifications, the CPU performance of the Exynos chip may not be on par with Qualcomm's SoC, but the lower clock speeds may result in higher efficiency.

Moreover, preliminary tests show that the new Exynos chip's CPU is 5% faster than its predecessor, and graphics are 17% faster. We still don't know the GPU clock speeds of the Xclipse 920 GPU, but rumours have pointed to something between 1.3GHz and 1.4GHz. If proven to be accurate, it's worth mentioning that RDNA2 and the GPU architectures used on Mali and Adreno SKUs are entirely different, making a comparison between the clock speeds of these GPUs somewhat irrelevant.

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