What might have forced Samsung to delay the Exynos 2200 and how will it impact the Galaxy S22 launch? We discuss everything here
Samsung did not win any fans, and it certainly disgruntled its loyal customer base when it was rumored that the Exynos 2200 launch was postponed. Fingers were being pointed left, right, and center that the Korean giant has no business carrying forward with its custom chip department, and it should rely on Qualcomm from hereon. However, every major company delays launch, and there was always going to be a ton of negativity over this decision given the hype surrounding the chipset, so why did Samsung proceed with this move, and how could it affect the Galaxy S22 unveiling? We discuss everything that you could be contemplating, and hopefully, we have the answers you seek. Exynos 2200 Continues to Impress as Its Beats Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in Multi-Core Tests, Despite Being Delayed Samsung was going to make history with the Exynos 2200 by making it the company’s first smartphone SoC to launch with an AMD RDNA2 GPU, ushering a new plateau of graphical improvements with support for visually impressive features like ray tracing. Unfortunately, with something as game-changing as this, there were always going to be problems. As pointed out by notable tipster Ice Universe, initial results of the Galaxy S22 tested with the new SoC revealed GPU performance results that were worse than MediaTek’s Dimensity 9000 using ARM’s Mali GPU. The Exynos 2100 made improvements in the CPU department by marginally beating the Snapdragon 888, and its only Achilles’ Heel was a weak GPU, something Samsung was supposedly ending with the Exynos 2200, but boy, were we in for a major surprise. We later got to know through the same Ice Universe, that Samsung’s chip department was going through its fair share of internal problems, and with massive hype built around the company’s upcoming flagship chipset, the last thing you needed was these kind of hurdles. At this point, there was speculation that Samsung could have outright canceled the Exynos 2200, but sure enough, the Korean tech behemoth did not reach its current position by giving up this easily.
