Samsung Galaxy S22: Snapdragon or Exynos?

Samsung Exynos 2200

There's always a lot of confusion and rumours before Samsung launched any of their hind end mobile SoCs. Mainly because Samsung ships their smartphones with snapdragon processors in one region and Exynos in other. Even when Samsung is trying so hard, Qualcomm's snapdragon has been outperforming their Exynos lineup for years now.

When Samsung launched it's Exynos 990, the company was so embarrassed after their Exynos processors failed to outperform the Snapdragon 865 in every comparison. These events lead to Samsung choosing the Snapdragon 865 over their own Exynos 990 for their Galaxy S20 phones.

The company missed its previously announced launch date and even deleted all social media posts to clear out the trace. The processor was finally revealed on Jan 18 but no major technical specifications were revealed.

Even though it is rumoured that Samsung has decided to yet again go for the snapdragon option for their Galaxy S22 lineup in their homeland South Korea there's still some hope in the European continent as they might get it. However, these are still just rumours and we may end up with Exynos everywhere this time.

And let's not just forget that the Exynos 2200 is the first mobile processor to support ray tracing and the same graphics architecture as the Xbox Series X|S, the AMD RDNA 2. As of the time I am writing this, people in Europe will get Exynos 2200 powered Galaxy S22, while North and South America gets Snapdragon Gen 1 along with East Asia, South East Asia (India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, etc.) and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand).

These are still rumoured obviously so it would be wise to wait until the Galaxy Unpacked event which is to be held on February 9 at 10 AM EST