Exynos 2200 graphics benchmarks are promising but premature

The Samsung exynos processor has a chaotic history in recent years. It seems like Samsung is on the road to catch up with Qualcomm, only for it taking a sharp nucca with Exynos 990 on Galaxy S20 last year. The company has protected its betting value in its partnership with AMD to produce a processor that utilizes Graphics Radeon technology. Exynos 2200 may only be around the corner, and the recent benchmarks seem to prove their courage, but some warnings must be considered before giving a blue ribbon.

Graphic performance slowly becomes a new arena for smartphones after the camera. The favorable cellular gaming market encourages telephone makers to push cellular GPU to the limit, or at least advertise their graphic meat. Samsung has put the foundation for the takeover of certain markets with AMD partnerships, and everything seems to look good, at least as far as benchmarks go.

Exynos 2200 is believed to be equipped with AMD MRDNA GPU which uses 6 computing units and runs at 1.31GHz, at least for tests. The results of running GFXBench 3.0 are shared on Twitter, revealing rather impressive numbers, especially when compared to Apple A14 Bionic. Manhattan 3.1 test, for example, produces a height of 170.7 FPS for Exynos 2200, while the A14 Bionic cannot be higher than 120 FPS.

That said, Apple A14 Bionic was last year’s chipset, and Exynos 2200 would compete with Apple A15 and Apple M1x. Furthermore, Sammobile noted that this score was actually lower than last year’s benchmarks, indicating that Samsung and AMD tried to balance performance, power consumption, and heat generation.

In other words, the real world performance of the Exynos 2200 in the phone can be significantly lower than this initial benchmark, especially when taking into account thermal management and limited power. It still changes to be better than what is currently on the market, but Qualcomm is reportedly also preparing to provide significant graphics increase to Snapdragon 895.