Samsung announces Exynos 2200 ahead of S22 launch, includes ray-tracing support

(Pocket-lint) - Samsung has pre-empted its 8 February Unpacked lawsuit with an announcement of the chipset expected to thrust the Galaxy S22 - successful immoderate regions, astatine least.

The Exynos 2200 mobile processor includes a Samsung Xclipse GPU utilises AMD RDNA 2 architecture and sports hardware-accelerated ray tracing.

Ray tracing is simply a comparatively caller exertion utilized chiefly successful gaming. It has been included successful PC graphics cards for the past 3 years and is portion of the DNA of the Xbox Series X/S and PS5 consoles. At a basal level, it enables developers to present much realistic lighting and reflection effects successful their games.

Variable complaint shading is besides imaginable with the caller strategy connected chip, which Samsung hopes volition usher successful a caller epoch of mobile gaming - graphically speaking, astatine least.

"AMD RDNA 2 graphics architecture extends power-efficient, precocious graphics solutions to PCs, laptops, consoles, automobiles and present to mobile phones. Samsung’s Xclipse GPU is the archetypal effect of aggregate planned generations of AMD RDNA graphics successful Exynos SoCs,” said AMD's elder vice president of Radeon technologies, David Wang.

"We can’t hold for mobile telephone customers to acquisition the large gaming experiences based connected our exertion collaboration."

Other features of the Exynos 2200 see almighty on-device AI, an octa-core CPU made up of an Arm Cortex-X2 flagship-core, 3 show and ratio balanced Cortex-A710 big-cores and 4 power-efficient Cortex-A510 little-cores, positive a 5G modem.

It is apt to thrust the Samsung Galaxy S22 bid phones successful immoderate regions, though others are thought to tally connected Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processing instead.

Writing by Rik Henderson.