Samsung’s Galaxy S23 exclusively arrived with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC and would continue on next year’s Galaxy S24 through the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. But now, a new speculation suggests Samsung may change its plan to launch an Exynos-powered Galaxy S24 in some regions.
The report comes from CCS Insight’s CEO Ben Wood, who told those details to Pocket-lint. According to him, the Samsung Exynos chips, particularly the Exynos 2400, may still find their way to the next-gen Galaxy flagship phones. This is at least happening in some countries, including South Korea, though it doesn’t believe this is the same case for Europe.
While the Exynos 2200 and older Samsung-made chips were remembered for their inferior performance compared to Snapdragon counterparts, the Exynos 2400 is seen to address efficiency in addition to bringing faster speed. The 10-core mobile processor will use a quad-cluster design and helmed by a Cortex-X4 primary core along with the Xclipse X940 GPU with four-times more graphic units.
What’s the difference on the Exynos 2400
Early benchmark results of the Exynos 2400 show a 30 percent faster improvement in CPU over the Exynos 2200 on the Galaxy S22. It also delivers 20 percent multicore performance compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 that powers the Galaxy S23 (review).
In addition, it provides support for 320 MP single camera and 8K video recording at 60 frame-per-second in 10-bit. There are no details yet on the efficiency or thermals yet, but it should be manufactured using the foundry’s 4 nm node.
But before the Exynos 2400 makes its way to the 2024 Galaxy S24 trio, Samsung is expected to launch the Galaxy S23 FE later this year. The budget flagship phone is rumored to feature an Exynos 2200 SoC outside the USA.
Do you think it is acceptable for Samsung to bring back Exynos chips to its high-end offering? We’d like to hear your answers on this.
