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For better or worse, Samsung is back using Exynos chips in its flagship phones. The newly launched Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+ ship with the Exynos 2400 in most markets, including Europe (Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 in the US and Canada). The company has now shared detailed specs of the new Exynos processor.
Samsung finally shares detailed Exynos 2400 specs
Samsung announced the Exynos 2400 during its System LSI Tech Day event in the first week of October last year. However, it didn’t reveal full specs. The company said the new chip brings a massive 14.7x boost in AI performance over the previous-gen solution (Exynos 2200), while the CPU and GPU performance have been improved too. We finally have the official numbers.
The Exynos 2400 features a deca-core CPU (ten CPU cores) featuring one Cortex-X4 prime core clocked at 3.2GHz. There are five Cortex-A720 mid-cores in the chip, split into a group of two and three with a clock speed of 2.9GHz and 2.6GHz, respectively. The four Cortex-A520 efficiency cores operate at a maximum frequency of 2GHz. Overall, it brings a 1.7x boost in CPU performance.
The Xclipse 940 custom GPU, based on AMD’s RDNA 3 architecture, also brings improvements to ray tracing, rendering, and reflections while gaming, making for a more immersive and enjoyable experience. The Exynos 2400 is also the first Exynos processor to use a Fan-out Wafer Level Package (FOWLP). It helps boost thermal management, so you can game longer worry-free.
Fabricated on Samsung’s third-gen 4nm LPP+ low-power process node, the chip is more power efficient than its predecessors. Coming to the AI engine, the Exynos 2400 has a new 17K MAC (2-GNPU + 2-SNPU) Neural Processing Unit (NPU). It supports LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.0 storage. The chip can handle 4K displays at 120Hz and QHD+ displays at 144Hz.
The Exynos 2400 supports up to 320MP cameras with 8K video decoding at 60fps with 10-bit HEVC. The integrated 5G modem can deliver downlink speeds of up to 9.64Gbps and uplink speeds of 2.55Gbps over sub-6GHz 5G networks. The theoretical peak speeds on mmWave 5G are 12.1Gbps (downlink) and 3.67Gbps (uplink). The new Samsung processor boasts GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, and Galileo navigation systems.
The Exynos 2400 has to set a lot of things right
Samsung’s Exynos chips don’t have the best reputation in the smartphone industry. Competing Qualcomm solutions have consistently outperformed them. The Korean firm skipped Exynos 2300 and went back to the drawing board to improve things. It has now come up with the Exynos 2400 to compete against Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. It remains to be seen whether the new Exynos gives a tough fight to its competitor. The Galaxy S24 Ultra ships with the Snapdragon chip globally.