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[Kaotik]

Looks like they fixed most of the issues they had with Exynos 2200 / Xclipse 920 (RDNA 2) on performance front with 2400 / Xclipse 940 (RDNA 3)

In initial tests CPU side is slightly behind Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 especially in nT content, but GPU is a match or even surpassing the latest Adreno.
In Geekbench GPU Xclipse has slight lead, 3DMark Solar Bay (with RT) shows Xclipse in slight lead with better result stability in long test runs and clearly better worst result. Older 3DMark Wild Life Extreme has Adreno in sight lead but Xclipses have better stability and near match worst score.
In actual games Genshin Impact, PUBG Mobile, Mobile Legends and Fortnite their performance is pretty much equal. In CoD: Mobile Adreno beats Xclipse silly, but Xclipse was capped at 60 FPS for unknown reason while Adreno was capped at 120 FPS. In RT supporting War Thunder Xclipse holds 100 FPS while Adreno throttles down to 40'ish FPS.

Galaxy S24 series' early benchmarks show Exynos 2400 matches Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Samsung’s latest flagship chipset edged out the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in Geekbench and 3D Mark Solar Bay GPU tests. With all the excitement following the...

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Exynos 2400 can keep up with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in real games

You'd be surprised by the results. Even though the Exynos 2400 drags behind the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in synthetic benchmark tests, even by just a little, the...

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[Erinyes]

Looks like they fixed most of the issues they had with Exynos 2200 / Xclipse 920 (RDNA 2) on performance front with 2400 / Xclipse 940 (RDNA 3)

In initial tests CPU side is slightly behind Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 especially in nT content, but GPU is a match or even surpassing the latest Adreno.
In Geekbench GPU Xclipse has slight lead, 3DMark Solar Bay (with RT) shows Xclipse in slight lead with better result stability in long test runs and clearly better worst result. Older 3DMark Wild Life Extreme has Adreno in sight lead but Xclipses have better stability and near match worst score.
In actual games Genshin Impact, PUBG Mobile, Mobile Legends and Fortnite their performance is pretty much equal. In CoD: Mobile Adreno beats Xclipse silly, but Xclipse was capped at 60 FPS for unknown reason while Adreno was capped at 120 FPS. In RT supporting War Thunder Xclipse holds 100 FPS while Adreno throttles down to 40'ish FPS.

Galaxy S24 series' early benchmarks show Exynos 2400 matches Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Samsung’s latest flagship chipset edged out the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in Geekbench and 3D Mark Solar Bay GPU tests. With all the excitement following the...

www.gsmarena.com

Exynos 2400 can keep up with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in real games

You'd be surprised by the results. Even though the Exynos 2400 drags behind the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in synthetic benchmark tests, even by just a little, the...

www.gsmarena.com

Part of the reason is also the process improvement. Seemingly the newest 4nm process by Samsung, 4LPP+ finally catches up to TSMC 4nm.

Next year's Exynos is going to be on their 2nd gen 3nm, SF3 (3GAP). Could this have RDNA4? The IP is ready and should be shipping in GPUs by Q4.

 

[Erinyes]

Part of the reason is also the process improvement. Seemingly the newest 4nm process by Samsung, 4LPP+ finally catches up to TSMC 4nm.

Next year's Exynos is going to be on their 2nd gen 3nm, SF3 (3GAP). Could this have RDNA4? The IP is ready and should be shipping in GPUs by Q4.

Samsung confirms Galaxy S25’s Exynos 2500 chip for the first time

Samsung has officially confirmed the Exynos 2500 chip for the first time. The South Korean firm named the 3nm chip ...

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Samsung makes mention of the Exynos 2500 though specs unknown at this point, likely to be revealed by September-October. I think it's likely to have the same RDNA 3.5 GPU IP as Strix Point as AMD mentioned that they leveraged their collaboration with their mobile partners and optimized for power efficiency.

 

[Erinyes]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1833138705877664115

Seemingly a 16 CU RDNA 3.5 GPU. Crazy that it's the same configuration in Strix Point, though obviously at much lower clocks (And more memory bandwidth/system cache?).

 

[Chiimaero]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1833138705877664115

Seemingly a 16 CU RDNA 3.5 GPU. Crazy that it's the same configuration in Strix Point, though obviously at much lower clocks (And more memory bandwidth/system cache?).

What this guy states about the GPU being 16 CUs is very, very unlikely (most likely it's a typo and this would be 6 CUs). The chip would be huge, bandwidth starved to death and running far far below its optimal frequency.
Plus the numbers don't match when compared to the Xclipse 940. They says +30%... Xclipse 940 is supposed to have 6CUs. So you either go with better CUs and clock them a bit higher, or, maybe (just maybe) you go with 8 CUs.
But 16? And why focus on a GPU that large when the marketing craze is all about AI?

Anyway, if the +30% figure is correct, this is not bad at all. It remains to be seens if that's peak or sustained given it is still an unproven Samsung node.

 

[Erinyes]

What this guy states about the GPU being 16 CUs is very, very unlikely (most likely it's a typo and this would be 6 CUs). The chip would be huge, bandwidth starved to death and running far far below its optimal frequency.
Plus the numbers don't match when compared to the Xclipse 940. They says +30%... Xclipse 940 is supposed to have 6CUs. So you either go with better CUs and clock them a bit higher, or, maybe (just maybe) you go with 8 CUs.
But 16? And why focus on a GPU that large when the marketing craze is all about AI?

Anyway, if the +30% figure is correct, this is not bad at all. It remains to be seens if that's peak or sustained given it is still an unproven Samsung node.

The Xclipse 920 had 6 CUs, the Xclipse 940 most definitely had more. All the leaks/specs say 6 WGPs/12 CUs - https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/samsung-exynos-2400-soc.2617187/

GPU performance is also important. They have to market gaming performance in addition to AI performance. Given that it's SF3, the power consumption should be reasonable one would hope so could well be sustained performance.