What you have to know
- Samsung introduced its new flagship cellular processor, the Exynos 2400, on Friday.
- The Exynos 2400 provides a 1.7x CPU enhance and a 14.7x AI enhance in comparison with the 2200.
- Samsung canceled the Exynos 2300 and used the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 globally for the Galaxy S23 sequence; rumors counsel it’s going to use the 2400 for some Galaxy S24 telephones.
Samsung has introduced its new Exynos 2400 chipset, designed to compete towards different new and upcoming flagship chips like Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, Tensor G3, and Dimensity 9300. It exhibits loads of main efficiency beneficial properties on paper, particularly for generative AI. However will or not it’s sufficient to shake Exynos’ shaky observe file lately?
In keeping with Samsung, the 4nm Exynos 2400 exhibits a “1.7x improve in CPU efficiency and a exceptional 14.7x enhance in AI efficiency” in comparison with the Exynos 2200, which was used for European Galaxy S22 telephones. It could additionally energy a 200MP digicam sensor.
The Samsung Exynos model took successful this yr when Samsung selected to use Snapdragon chips globally for the Galaxy S23 sequence. The Exynos 2200, specifically, struggled with battery life, effectivity, and gaming efficiency, which can have contributed to Samsung’s determination to go away the Exynos 2300 unused.
This yr, nonetheless, rumors strongly counsel that Samsung intends to use this Exynos 2400 chip in Europe for the Galaxy S24 and S24 Plus somewhat than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Allegedly, the S24 Extremely will use the Snapdragon worldwide.
Whereas the Galaxy S24 might very effectively stay one of many finest Android telephones, it is intriguing that Samsung has gone proper again to a two-tiered silicon method to its flagship telephone a yr after Qualcomm gave Samsung an unique overclocked Snapdragon chip for the S23.
That is why it is necessary to see what the Exynos 2400 will convey to the desk. The truth that Samsung makes use of the two-year-old Exynos 2200 as a degree of reference for the 2400 makes it troublesome to guage for now.
Just like the Pixel 8 with its Tensor-powered AI trickery, the Exynos-backed Galaxy S24 may have extra AI capability for instruments like “text-to-image AI era,” one thing Samsung hinted at throughout its System LSI Tech Day 2023 occasion in San Jose.
Samsung additionally promised to make use of “AI-based monitoring expertise” to seize fast-moving objects at 4X zoom “with none picture degradation.”
Samsung hasn’t but revealed the Exynos 2400 cores, however Telephone Area claims that it will use a Cortex-X4 core clocked at 3.19GHz, 5 Cortex-A720 cores, and 4 Cortex-A520 cores. Whereas this configuration matches the (alleged) Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 CPU precisely, that chip will probably be clocked noticeably larger for all ten cores, giving Qualcomm telephones the sting.
As for the GPU, Samsung mentioned it can use the Xclipse 940 GPU “primarily based on the most recent AMD RDNA 3 structure.” It apparently has “enhanced ray tracing functionality” and new optical upgrades, nevertheless it’s unclear how a lot quicker it performs in comparison with the Xclipse 920 — which itself provided ray tracing.