As early as 2019, when Samsung Exynos' "Android Light" throne was unstable, Samsung reached a cooperation with AMD to bring the latter's RDNA GPU graphics IP to the Exynos platform. After three years of waiting, the Exynos 2200 jointly created by Samsung and AMD has also been unveiled with the Galaxy S22 series, but the role played by AMD in this flagship master has not been officially announced until a source "revealed" the relevant information in it.
According to overseas technology media quoting industry insiders, the Exynos 2200 GPU subsystem Xclipse 920 is codenamed MGFX0 (M0), codenamed Van Gogh Lite, which is an APU originally designed by AMD for ultra-low-power devices, but it was not released. Van Gogh is actually the GPU used in the newly launched Steam Deck handheld, which has 8 compute units and 512 stream processor cores, while the Xclipse 920 is equipped with 6 compute units and 384 stream processor cores.
This means that the Xclipse 920 is a shrunken version of the GPU from the handheld platform, and its original performance is much higher than it is now. And this may be the original report that Samsung is difficult to balance the performance release and power consumption of the Xclipse 920 and eventually had to reduce the frequency, which is closely related. But conversely, if Samsung solves the yield problem of advanced process processes in the future, AMD's RDNA may usher in a better performance on the mobile platform.
And it is worth mentioning that the words MGFX1 and 930 also appear in the relevant development code of Exynos 2200, perhaps to imply that the next generation GPU may be named Xclipse 930, and it is expected to have the same configuration of 8 computing units and 512 stream processor cores as steam Deck's APU. However, the specific details of exynos 2200 are yet to be confirmed by the further news of subsequent Samsung, so interested friends may wish to continue to pay attention.
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