Samsung may be testing a modified version of its upcoming Exynos 2200 for the Galaxy S22 series. According to the latest leak, the Galaxy S22 Plus may use a 4+4 combination instead of the 1+3+4 used by Samsung in the Exynos 2100. This shows that Samsung may want to improve efficiency while focusing on improving GPU performance.
A screenshot posted by Anthony on Twitter shows that a Galaxy S22 Plus is being tested with different versions of Exynos 2200. When trying to find the same Galaxy S22 Plus using its unique model s5e9925 in Geekbench 5, I stumbled upon a different core combination of Exynos 2200.
If you look closely, you can see the following CPU configuration:
The four-core Cortex-A710 runs at 2.50GHz, and the four-core Cortex-A510 runs at 1.73GHz. One of the cores of another 1+3+4 CPU combination may be Cortex-X2, running at 2.59GHz. One reason Samsung will test different Exynos 2200 versions is to find a balance between performance and efficiency.
Since graphics performance has always been the Achilles heel of Exynos, Samsung may want to remove Cortex-X2 while still providing an eight-core CPU, but the computing performance is low. Since Cortex-A710 and Cortex-A510 may consume less power, Samsung will have room for AMD RDNA2 GPUs to run at higher frequencies to improve graphics performance while maintaining acceptable overall power consumption for the chipset.
Exynos 2200 may not be able to surpass Apple’s latest A15 Bionic, but it has beaten last year’s A14 Bionic in the leak of previous benchmark results. Maybe Samsung will let the GPU run at full speed, squeezing every bit of performance from it at the expense of the benefits of the CPU.
