Tipster says that the Exynos 2300 SoC was not canceled because its performance might lag the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
Since Samsung never put the Exynos 2300 SoC into mass production, the chipset was never used to power any device. Using the „Quadra“ codename for the component, X tipster Revegnus posted on the platform once known as Twitter (via Wccftech) that „The decision to cancel was made before Quadra could be properly mass-produced, within the DS division. Looking at 2300’s performance, it doesn’t significantly lag behind Gen2.“For some reason, the cancellation of the Exynos 2300 seemed to leave the chip with a false narrative that it couldn’t compete with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 so Samsung 86’d the application processor (AP) and decided to go ahead and equip every Galaxy S23 series unit with Qualcomm’s overclocked Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy AP. Revegnus notes that the narrative was wrong. He posted on X, „Comparing the Exynos 2300 to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is akin to comparing the Exynos 2100 to the Snapdragon 888.“Not everyone believes that the Exynos 2100 would have been competitive with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2
Wccftech notes that benchmark tests performed on the Exynos 2100 and the Snapdragon 888 resulted in the former leading the way until the latter’s superior Adreno 660 GPU pushed it over the top.
