Samsung Philippines Might Have Spared Us From The Exynos 2200

Samsung Philippines Might Have Spared Us From The Exynos 2200

When people shop for a flagship device such as the newly-released Galaxy S22 and Tab S8 models from Samsung, they’re expecting cutting-edge technology and longevity in exchange for paying a pretty penny. This makes perfect sense as smartphone prices have blown through the roof in the past 5 years. The folks at Samsung know this too – and that’s why they’ve recently extended software support for their top devices to 4 major Android updates. Another essential part of determining whether a device is futureproofed or not is its processing power. The flagship devices from the South Korean giant come with either Snapdragon or in-house Exynos chipsets, with the latter coming under heavy fire as of late. While the newest Exynos 2200 isn’t necessarily doomed to fail due to innovation and marketing techniques, Samsung Philippines has wisely chosen to bring over the more confidence-inspiring Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 versions to the country.

News regarding the performance of the Exynos 2200 has been all over the place. Exynos devices have lagged behind their Snapdragon counterparts by as much as half a generation worth of benchmarks, which is why they announced that the newest chip’s GPU is a collaboration with AMD. Set for a flamboyant announcement event last month, Samsung cancelled at the very last minute for reasons we aren’t sure of to this day.

By the tail-end of January though, Samsung released a YouTube video featuring the newest in-house chipset with the tagline “Playtime is over.” The futuristic theme of the video seemed to showcase the mobile processor’s ray tracing capabilities, reminiscent of those found in PC GPUs. There was optimism to be found in the strangest places as the 2200’s Xclipse GPU forged a significant lead over the Adreno found in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, measured through the Vulkan test.

However, in other tests, the Exynos 2200 lost out to the Snapdragon and upcoming MediaTek Dimensity 9000. The most recent findings by WCCFTech indicate that the AMD Xclipse GPU found in the newest Exynos is just a paltry 17% faster than the ARM version found in the S21 series’ Exynos 2100. To add insult to injury, the CPU is only at a 5% increase, as measured by TechAltar. This pales in comparison to how the GPU performance of the newest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor reportedly obliterates 2021’s Snapdragon 888 by around 50%. The gap has been increased even further.

Regardless of the final peak performance from any of these chipsets, a tremendous factor that should never be taken out of the equation is throttling. Processing creates heat, and too much heat can damage the internals. To prevent this, speeds are bottlenecked to manage temperatures, which means that certain devices can only reach their full potential for a short amount of time before finding a significant decrease in power.

We’ll have to wait and see if these devices can sustainably last through a few hours of your favorite demanding mobile games. Considering that it’s both an uncertainty and a risk though, we are glad that the safer Snapdragon option will be brought to our shores. Besides the Philippines, the rest of Southeast Asia, China, Japan, South Korea, Latin, and North America will be receiving the same variants. Yep, you heard that right – in Samsung’s home country of Korea, they won’t be getting the in-house chip. This isn’t the first time this is happening though, and could be seen as a wake-up call to the team behind the Exynos chipset.

The 2200 will be finding its way in devices being shipped to Europe, the CIS, Southwest Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. We’ll have to wait for them to give their thoughts and run the numbers.

 

 

 

 

 

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