Samsung Exynos 2400 Packs 10 Cores And AMD Xclipse 940 GPU: Can It Beat Latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3?

Samsung is expected to embed its Exynos 2400 inside some of the Samsung Galaxy S24 series smartphones for select markets. The detailed specifications of the as-yet-unannounced SoC (System on a Chip) have surfaced.

The Samsung Exynos 2400 chipset is a powerhouse, which features 10 CPU cores and an upgraded Xclipse 940 GPU. Let's look at the features and capabilities of the Samsung Exynos 2400 and see if it can challenge or perhaps even dethrone the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC.

What's Inside The Deca-Core Samsung Exynos 2400 SoC?

The Samsung Exynos 2400 is the latest chipset which, like any other SoC, comprises CPU, GPU, RAM, and memory chips. However, it is obviously way better than the previous generation of chipsets from Qualcomm as well as Samsung.

Manufactured on the new 4nm Fabrication Node, the Samsung Exynos 2400 packs 10 CPU Cores with a 1+2+3+4 configuration. The single Prime Performance Cortex-X4 core in the Exynos 2400 is clocked at 3.1GHz.

There are two additional High-Performance Cortex-A720 cores clocked at 2.9 GHz. Three Performance Cortex-A720 cores are clocked at 2.6 GHz, while the remaining four Efficiency Cortex-A520 cores are clocked at 1.8 GHz.

While these numbers may not mean much, all the cores ticking inside the Exynos 2400 are based on the ARMv9 architecture. This means Samsung isn't clubbing old CPUs with new ones just to boast about the number of cores and the top clock speed.

The GPU embedded inside the Samsung Exynos 2400 could be the game-changer for the SoC. The upcoming chipset, primarily intended for flagship smartphones, houses an upgraded Xclipse 940 GPU.

The new and improved Xclipse 940 GPU is a major highlight because it features twice as many graphics compute units compared to AMD RDNA 2 GPU Architecture.

Will Samsung Exynos 2400 Beat The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC?

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, manufactured on the 4nm Node, is expected to be an octa-core chipset, which means it should have eight cores in a 1+5+2 configuration.

Some reports suggest it will have a single Prime Performance Cortex-X43 core clocked at 3.2 GHz. Five Cortex-A720s Performance cores clocked at 3.0 GHz, and a pair of Cortex-A520s Efficiency cores clocked at 2.0GHz.

Samsung Exynos 2400 may not edge past the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in raw performance even though it has two extra cores. This is primarily because smartphones and Android OS aren't able to use all the CPU cores simultaneously.

Simply put, the winner between the Samsung Exynos 2400 and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC could be decided based on the GPU performance and other finer aspects such as wireless connectivity, RAM, and storage read-write performance.

The AMD Xclipse 940 embedded inside the Samsung Exynos 2400 will likely have six WGPs (Workgroup Processors with two compute units) totaling 12 GPU cores. This is double the performance of the Exynos 2200. It appears Samsung and AMD have addressed a major limiting factor of the flagship Exynos chipsets.

Apart from these aspects, both the Samsung Exynos 2400 and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC support LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.0 storage. Both chipsets will be able to support cameras that can record in 8K resolution at 60 FPS. While the Samsung Exynos 2400 will pack the new 5G-enabled Exynos 5300 modem, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC is rumored to feature the X75 5G modem.