Samsung unveils Exynos 2500: 4K 120Hz, 320MP sensor, GPU based on AMD RDNA 3

Samsung has officially unveiled the Exynos 2500 chipset, the company's latest mobile processor that's built on a second-generation 3nm Gate-All-Around (GAA) process.

The latest chipset is equipped with a 10-core CPU and a new AMD-based Xclipse GPU and ushers in improvements in AI performance, power efficiency, and camera performance. The details for the new chipset can be found on Samsung's website, and according to the listing, the Exynos 2500 CPU is a tri-cluster architecture and features the following: 1x Cortex-X925 core clocked at 3.3GHz, 2x Cortex-A520 efficiency cores at 1.8GHz, and 2x Cortex-A725 cores at 2.74GHz, and 5x Cortex-A725 cores at 2.36GHz.

As for performance gains over the previous generation, Samsung claims a 15% improvement in CPU performance. Moving on to the GPU, the Xclipse 950 GPU has been developed in collaboration with AMD and is based on RDNA 3 architecture. The new GPU ushers in a dual-shader engine that comes with improved ray tracing performance and is capable of increasing frame rates by up to 28% compared to the previous generation.

AI performance is expected to get a step up as well, with the Exynos 2500 packing a 24K MAC NPU with a 2-GNPU + 2-SNPU configuration that includes DSP support. Notably, Samsung claims the new NPU is able to hit 590 TOPS, or Trillion Operations Per Second, which is a staggering 39% increase over the previous-gen chip.

The Exynos 2500 supports a 320MP single-camera sensor and dual 64MB + 32MP setups, with support for 8K video at 30FPS and 60FPS decode. Additionally, the improved image signal processor comes with multi-layer temporal-spatial noise reduction and dynamic range compression. The Exynos 2500 packs LPDDR5X and UFS 4.0 storage and supports 4K displays up to 120Hz. Lastly, it includes a 5G modem capable of 12.1 Gbps downlink on mmWave, Bluetooth 5.4, and WiFi 7.

The Exynos 2500 is expected to debut in the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 7.