Exynos 2200, Dimensity 9000 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1: Which processor is better?

Samsung has finally introduced the Exynos 2200. Of course, not all details were shared. However, we can now see more clearly how the new generation mobile processors provide advantages and disadvantages against each other. The flagship class currently has strong rivals on the Android front, such as Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Dimensity 9000. If you’re wondering which one is better, let’s take a closer look at its features.

Exynos 2200, Dimensity 9000 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 features

All three of these Exynos, Dimensity and Snapdragon chips, which will be used in flagship devices in 2022, use cores based on the Armv9 architecture. If we look a little deeper, we see Cortex-X2 for power, Cortex-A710 for midrange and Cortex-A510 for efficiency.

Although Google makes its own developments in the Tensor chip and uses Cortex-X1, A78 and A55 cores that come with 2+2+4 configurations, we did not include this chip in our comparison since it is based on Armv8 when looking at its architecture.

In contrast, the new Snapdragon, Exynos, and Dimensity chips are expected to offer fairly close performance data, as they all use the same CPU cores and 1+3+4 layout. However, since MediaTek prefers TSMC’s 4nm process over Samsung’s 4nm manufacturing architecture, there will be minor differences between them, such as clock speed and cache differences.

But when we look at the basic user experience, we can say that all 3 processors offer very close things to the users. Of course, at this point, there may also be low performance problems due to heating or efficiency, which may vary depending on the device. However, although we will only see the difference on paper, it should be noted that MediaTek supports LPDDR5X RAM, which is slightly faster than its competitors.

Looking at the graphics processor, the color of the work changes. MediaTek’s Dimensity 9000 chip uses Arm Mali-G710 MC10 GPUs, which offer 35 percent higher performance than Snapdragon 888, one of this year’s popular flagship chips.

On the Qualcomm side, we cannot reach an absolute conclusion as it has switched to a completely new nomenclature, model numbers and chip series. However, looking at the data announced by the company, it offers a performance increase of around 30 percent compared to the previous generation 888. Therefore, we can say that it is a direct competitor with MediaTek.

Samsung Exynos 2200 is the long-awaited chip with the most radical change. It houses the Xclipse 920 GPU, which uses AMD’s RDNA2 architecture that powers PlayStation 5, Xbox and high-end PC graphics cards.

It’s a big step forward for the mobile side, and for one, hardware-based ray tracing will definitely be stronger than Mediatek’s software support. Of course, thanks to the application and game support, we will be able to understand this difference clearly. However, among these 3 chips, which are close to each other in CPUs within the chip, Samsung seems to take the leadership seat on the GPU side.

However, it should be noted that we still have no information about the performance or power consumption of RDNA2 in a low-power mobile form factor. The core count and clock speeds are significantly throttled compared to its console siblings. Therefore, we should never compare performance expectations with them.