It is probably the Samsung Exynos 2400 the most anticipated SoC by all those interested in the mobile device sector. And no, I’m not saying that because all those people want to buy a smartphone equipped with it, even more so considering that it hasn’t even hit the market yet. No, what’s so interesting is that if the expected plans are confirmed, it will be the integrated one with Samsung once again using its own chips for its Samsung Galaxy S family, flagships companies.

To better understand this, we have to remember that after rumors in both directions, it was confirmed at the end of last year that the current generation of its top line, the Galaxy S23, will only hit the market with a Snapdragon 8 Gen SoC. 2 which tells us that Samsung was unable to fix, on the finally retired Exynos 2300problems that its predecessor the 2200 had, resulting in its version equipped with Qualcomm chips being much more reliable.

First, after this setback for technology, pThere have been doubts whether Samsung will abandon Exynos development, in whole or in part, even more to see the collaboration between Samsung and Qualcomm to create its own Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for the S23. However, shortly after we knew there was a future for the Korean integrated technology and that they were already working on the future Exynos 2400, which is the integrated system that concerns us today and aims to demonstrate that the company still has something to say in the SoC market.

For a few months now, we’ve had some references about the improvements this SoC would make with respect to the 2200, and it’s increasingly likely that it will end up powering part of the production Galaxy S24, so the leaks about it are getting more and more interesting. with each passing day. And the latest news in this regard can be found on the AnTuTu website (in Chinese) confirming this Exynos 2400 SoC will have 10 cores, Xclipse 940 GPU and very promising features.

Starting with CPU, lThe 10 Exynos 2400 cores are distributed in a 1+2+3+4 configuration, with Cortex-X4 at 3.1 gigahertz providing the highest raw power performance. We also find two Cortex-A720 at 2.9 gigahertz, which reinforce the potential advantage of the SoC. At the most balanced point, we find ourselves again with three Cortex-A720 cores, but this time set to 2.6 GHz, and the set is completed by four 4x Cortex-A520 cores at 1.8 GHz, which complete the energy efficiency aspect of the SoC.

We expected the Exynos 2400 to have a good graphics part, and it seems that it really will, as a result of the collaboration signed between Samsung and AMD. So it seems that the Xclipse 940 GPU will be based on the RDNA2 architecture (although there is no consensus on this point, other voices suggest that it will use the latest RDNA3) with 12 compute units and 768 shaders. As for its operating frequency, it is pointed out that both technology companies would choose to focus on efficiency and therefore it would be below gigahertz.

Although there are no more concrete details about it, the leak also points to a significant improvement to the Exynos 2400. regarding the progress of tasks specifically related to artificial intelligence. In this regard, we must remember that the Exynos 2200 integrated a dual NPU together with a DSP specifically designed for these tasks, although the technology company did not provide much information about its advantages, except that they doubled the advantages of its predecessor, the Exynos 2100. ..

As for its connectivity, it will depend directly on Exynos 5300 modemwhich according to filtering can achieve speeds of up to 10 Gbps downstream and up to 3.87 Gbps upstream, in addition to offering support for what is set to be a major high-end trend, two-way satellite connection, a technology that has already proven to be very useful in certain contexts, such as emergency situations. We conclude the review by noting that the Exynos 2400 will be compatible with LPDDR5X memories and UFS 4.0 storage, so we can expect excellent performance from both key components.

In the absence of an official confirmation from Samsung, and of course performance tests to come later, it seems that they have used Exynos’ sabbatical to iron out technical issues and re-polish their platform. And we are particularly interested in these latitudes because they are expected to be lThe versions of the Samsung Galaxy S24 that will arrive in Europe are the ones that integrate this as yet unreleased Exynos 2400compared to the Qualcomm SoC-equipped models that will surely be the ones debuting on the other side of the pond.