So, yes, Exynos is back. It's not a rumor anymore: Samsung has officially unveiled the Exynos 2400 chip as the successor to the Exynos 2200, which powered last year's Galaxy S22 series and also powers the Galaxy S23 FE that launched earlier this week.
Samsung has been launching a new flagship Exynos chip every year for the past decade, but the company broke tradition after launching the Exynos 2200, following years of criticism over the quality of Exynos chips. Now, around 20 months later, Samsung has announced the Exynos 2400, which brings huge gains in CPU, GPU, and AI performance.
The gains are seriously huge. CPU performance is 70% better, for example, and AI performance gets a 14.7x boost. But you have to remember that the Exynos 2400 brings two years' worth of improvements and its capabilities are being compared to the Exynos 2200. The newer GPU inside the Exynos 2400, based on AMD's RDNA3 architecture, currently seems to be slightly less fast than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2's GPU.
Samsung will probably make optimizations in the coming months to make sure the Exynos 2400 operates as well as it can. But, right now, there's no way to tell how fast it will be, how efficient it will be, how cool it will run, and how it will compare to Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
What is certain, however, is that Exynos is back, and your wishes for another year of Snapdragon-only Galaxy flagships will not come true. There's no way Samsung's semiconductor division worked hard on the Exynos 2400 only for the company's mobile division to act like nothing's changed and just stick with a Qualcomm chip for its next flagship.
Snapdragon-only Galaxy S24 dreams aren't coming true
And so the Snapdragon vs Exynos debate is about to heat up again, and in the coming months Samsung fans will be wondering what brand of chip the Galaxy S24 will have when it launches in their country. The Exynos 2200 was limited to the European continent, but it remains to be seen whether the Exynos 2400 will be treated similarly or if it will power the Galaxy S24 lineup in some other regions as well.
There have been many Exynos 2400 rumors recently, and one of them claimed that Samsung's chip could power only the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+ and the Ultra model could exclusively use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. But with the Galaxy S24 series still a few months away, there's no way to be sure which rumors are fact and which rumors are fiction.
As a Samsung fansite, we would like nothing more than to see the Exynos line of chips succeed, but even diehard fans have limited patience and trust, so we will be skeptical until Samsung does something to regain that trust. The Exynos 2400 looks amazing on paper, and here's hoping it will be the comeback Samsung's chipmaking team so desperately needs.
