삼성전자가 그래픽 기능을 대폭 강화한 프리미엄 모바일AP ‘엑시노스 2200’을 출시했다.

‘엑시노스 2200’에는 AMD와 공동 개발한 GPU(Graphics Processing Unit) ‘엑스클립스(Xclipse)’가 탑재돼 콘솔 게임 수준의 고성능·고화질 게이밍 경험을 제공한다.

삼성전자 시스템LSI사업부장 박용인 사장은 “‘엑시노스 2200’은 최첨단 4나노 EUV 공정, 최신 모바일 기술, 차세대 GPU, NPU(Neural Processing Unit)가 적용된 제품으로 게임, 영상처리, AI 등 다양한 영역에서 새로운 차원의 사용자 경험을 제공할 것”이라며, “삼성전자는 모바일AP 뿐만 아니라 차별화된 전략 제품을 지속 출시하며 시스템 반도체 전반에 걸쳐 혁신을 주도해 나가겠다”고 밝혔다.

□ 콘솔 게임 수준의 고성능, 고화질 그래픽 경험 제공

삼성전자와 AMD가 공동 개발한 GPU ‘엑스클립스’는 AMD의 최신 그래픽 아키텍처인 ‘RDNA 2’ 기반으로 모바일 기기에서 업계 최고 수준의 게임 그래픽 성능을 지원한다.

삼성전자는 모바일AP로는 최초로 하드웨어 기반의 ‘광선 추적(Ray Tracing)’ 기능을 탑재했다.

‘광선 추적’ 기능은 물체에 투과, 굴절, 반사되는 빛을 추적해 사물을 실감나게 표현하는 기술로 게임을 더욱 현실적으로 구현한다.

삼성전자는 영상의 음영을 선택적으로 조절해 GPU를 효율적으로 사용하는 ‘가변 레이트 쉐이딩(Variable Rate Shading)’ 기술도 탑재했다.

‘가변 레이트 쉐이딩’은 영상의 밝기, 움직임 등을 분석해, 고성능·고화질 장면에서 최적화된 렌더링을 제공한다.

또한, 전력 효율을 최적화하는 자체 솔루션인 ‘AMIGO(Advanced Multi-IP Governor)’를 탑재해 고화질·고사양 게임과 프로그램에서 배터리 소모에 대한 부담도 줄였다.

AMD 라데온 테크놀로지 그룹 수석 부사장 데이비드 왕(David Wang)은 “AMD는 ‘RDNA 2’ 그래픽 아키텍처를 통해 PC, 노트북, 게임 콘솔, 자동차에 이어 스마트폰에까지 최신 저전력 그래픽 솔루션을 제공하게 됐다”며, “엑스클립스는 향후 엑시노스 프로세서에 탑재 예정인 다양한 AMD RDNA 그래픽 솔루션 시리즈의 첫 협업 사례로, 두 회사의 기술 협력을 바탕으로 스마트폰 사용자들에게 최상의 게임 경험을 선사할 것”이라고 말했다.

□ 최신 CPU 아키텍처 기반 한층 향상된 NPU 성능, 머신러닝 기능 제공

‘엑시노스 2200’은 Arm의 최신 CPU 아키텍처 ‘Armv9’을 기반으로 하며, NPU 성능과 머신러닝 기능이 향상됐다.

특히, NPU 연산 성능은 전작 대비 두 배 이상 향상돼, 스마트 기기에서 AI 기능을 구현하는 온-디바이스(On-Device) AI 기능도 강화됐다.

또한, ‘엑시노스 2200’은 고성능 ‘코어텍스(Cortex)-X2’ 1개, ‘코어텍스-A710’ 3개, 저전력 ‘코어텍스-A510’ 4개를 탑재하는 ‘트라이 클러스터(Tri-Cluster) 구조’의 옥타코어로 설계됐다.

‘엑시노스 2200’은 3GPP 릴리즈 16 규격의 5G 모뎀을 내장했다. 저주파대역(서브-6, Sub-6)과 초고주파대역(밀리미터파, mmWave)까지 전세계 5G 주요 주파수를 모두 지원한다.

Arm IP 프로덕트 그룹 대표 르네 하스(Rene Haas)는 “미래의 디지털 경험을 위해서는 새로운 차원의 성능, 보안, 효율성이 요구된다”며, “새로운 Armv9 CPU 코어를 탑재한 첫 프로세서 중 하나인 삼성 ‘엑시노스 2200’은 목적 기반 컴퓨팅과 특화된 프로세싱으로 구현되는 새로운 모바일 경험을 제공하기 위해 Arm의 토탈 컴퓨트(Total Compute) 전략, 메모리 태깅 익스텐션(Memory Tagging Extension)과 같은 주요 보안 기능을 활용할 수 있게 됐다”고 밝혔다.

이외에도 ‘엑시노스 2200’은 최대 2억 화소까지 처리할 수 있는 고성능 ISP(Image Signal Processor)를 탑재했다. ‘엑시노스 2200’은 최대 7개의 이미지센서를 지원하고, 4개의 이미지센서에서 입력되는 영상과 이미지를 동시에 처리할 수 있다.

‘엑시노스 2200’의 ISP는 NPU와 연동해 배경에 포함된 다양한 사물, 환경, 인물 등을 인식해 최적의 색과 명암 노출 조절을 통해 전문 사진가 수준의 사진 촬영을 지원한다.

출처 : https://news.samsung.com/kr/%ec%82%bc%ec%84%b1%ec%a0%84%ec%9e%90-%ed%94%84%eb%a6%ac%eb%af%b8%ec%97%84-%eb%aa%a8%eb%b0%94%ec%9d%bcap-%ec%97%91%ec%8b%9c%eb%85%b8%ec%8a%a4-2200-%ec%b6%9c%ec%8b%9c

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced its new premium mobile processor, the Exynos 2200. The Exynos 2200 is a freshly designed mobile processor with a powerful AMD RDNA 2 architecture based Samsung Xclipse graphics processing unit (GPU). With the most cutting-edge Arm^®-based CPU cores available in the market today and an upgraded neural processing unit (NPU), the Exynos 2200 will enable the ultimate mobile phone gaming experience, as well as enhancing the overall experience in social media apps and photography.

“Built on the most advanced 4-nanometer (nm) EUV (extreme ultraviolet lithography) process, and combined with cutting-edge mobile, GPU, and NPU technology, Samsung has crafted the Exynos 2200 to provide the finest experience for smartphone users. With the Xclipse, our new mobile GPU built with RDNA 2 graphics technology from the industry leader AMD, the Exynos 2200 will redefine mobile gaming experience, aided by enhanced graphics and AI performance,” said Yongin Park, President of System LSI Business at Samsung Electronics. “As well as bringing the best mobile experience to the users, Samsung will continue its efforts to lead the journey in logic chip innovation.”

The Industry’s First Hardware-accelerated Ray Tracing on Mobile for the Ultimate Gaming Experience

The Xclipse GPU is a one-of-a-kind hybrid graphic processor that is positioned between the console and the mobile graphic processor. Xclipse is the combination of ‘X’ that represents Exynos, and the word ‘eclipse’. Like an eclipse, the Xclipse GPU will bring an end to the old era of mobile gaming and mark the start of an exciting new chapter.

With the high-performance AMD RDNA 2 architecture as its backbone, the Xclipse inherits advanced graphic features such as hardware accelerated ray tracing (RT) and variable rate shading (VRS) that were previously only available on PCs, laptops and consoles.

Ray tracing is a revolutionary technology that closely simulates how light physically behaves in the real world. By calculating the movement and the color characteristic of light rays as they bounce off the surface, ray tracing produces realistic lighting effects for graphically rendered scenes. To offer the most immersive graphics and user experiences even on mobile, Samsung has collaborated with AMD to realize the industry’s first ever hardware-accelerated ray tracing on mobile GPU.

Variable rate shading is a technique that optimizes GPU workload by allowing developers to apply lower shading rate in areas where overall quality will not be affected. This gives GPU more room to work on areas that matter most to the gamers and improve frame-rate for smoother gameplay.

In addition, the Xclipse GPU comes with various technologies such as advanced multi-IP governor (AMIGO) that enhance overall performance and efficiency.

“AMD RDNA 2 graphics architecture extends power-efficient, advanced graphics solutions to PCs, laptops, consoles, automobiles and now to mobile phones. Samsung’s Xclipse GPU is the first result of multiple planned generations of AMD RDNA graphics in Exynos SoCs,” said David Wang, Senior Vice President of Radeon Technologies Group at AMD. “We can’t wait for mobile phone customers to experience the great gaming experiences based on our technology collaboration.”

Enhanced 5G Connectivity and Ironclad Security Features

The Exynos 2200 is one of the first in the market to integrate Arm’s latest Armv9 CPU cores which offer a substantial improvement over Armv8 in terms of security and performance, the two areas that are becoming critically important in today’s mobile communications devices.

The octa-core CPU of Exynos 2200 is designed in a tri-cluster structure made up of a single powerful Arm Cortex^®-X2 flagship-core, three performance and efficiency balanced Cortex-A710 big-cores and four power-efficient Cortex-A510 little-cores.

“The digital experiences of tomorrow require new levels of performance, security and efficiency,” said Rene Haas, President of IP Products Group (IPG) at Arm. “As one of the first processors to incorporate the new Armv9 CPU cores, Samsung’s Exynos 2200 takes advantage of Arm’s Total Compute strategy and key security features, like Memory Tagging Extension (MTE), to deliver the purpose-built compute and specialized processing needed to power future mobile experiences.”

The Exynos 2200 offers more powerful on-device artificial intelligence (AI) with an upgraded NPU. The NPU’s performance has doubled compared to its predecessor, allowing more calculations in parallel and enhancing the AI performance. The NPU now offers much higher precision with FP16 (16bit floating point) support in addition to power efficient INT8 (8bit integer) and INT16.

Also, the Exynos 2200 integrates a fast 3GPP Release 16 5G modem supporting both sub-6GHz and mmWave (millimeter Wave) spectrum bands. With E-UTRAN New Radio – Dual Connectivity (EN-DC), which utilizes both 4G LTE and 5G NR signals, the modem can boost the speed up to 10Gbps.

For safekeeping, the Exynos 2200 comes with Integrated Secure Element (iSE) to store private cryptographic keys as well as to play a role as RoT (Root of Trust). Also, an inline encryption HW for UFS and DRAM has been reinforced to have user data encryption safely shared only within the secure domain.

Providing Enhanced Visual Experience and Professional-level Quality Images

The Exynos 2200’s image signal processor (ISP) architecture has been redesigned to support the latest image sensors for ultra-high resolution of up to 200 megapixel (MP). At 30 frames-per- second (fps), the ISP supports up to 108 MP in single camera mode, and 64+36Mp in dual camera mode. It can also connect up to seven individual image sensors and drive four concurrently for advanced multi-camera setups. For video recording, the ISP supports up to 4K HDR (or 8K) resolution.

Together with the NPU, the ISP utilizes an advanced content-aware AI camera for more refined and realistic results. When taking a photograph, the machine learning based AI camera recognizes multiple objects, the environment, and faces within the scene. It then applies optimal settings for color, white balance, exposure, dynamic range, and more to produce professional-level quality images.

With 8K resolution support, the Exynos 2200’s advanced multi-format codec (MFC) makes videos truly come to life. It decodes videos up to 4K at 240fps or 8K at 60fps and encodes up to 4K at 120fps or 8K at 30fps. In addition, the MFC integrates power efficient AV1 decoder enabling longer playback time. The advanced display solution features HDR10+ adding more dynamic range and depth to the picture and offers refresh rates of up to 144Hz for a more responsive and smoother transitioning experience when scrolling or playing games.

The Exynos 2200 is currently in mass production.

출처 : https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/exynos/newsroom/pressrelease/samsung-announces-game-changing-exynos-2200/