At first, the Exynos 2200 looks promising because it uses a GPU with AMD's flagship RDNA 2 architecture. But its performance turned out to be even lower against Qualcomm's flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
In its history, the performance of Exynos compared to Snapdragon has always lost. So the Galaxy S series that uses the Snapdragon SoC usually have higher performance than those that use the Exynos variant.
However, the Exynos 2200 was initially quite promising because it had something completely new in the realm of mobile SoC. That is AMD's involvement to design the GPU in the SoC using the RDNA 2 architecture like the one on the PS5 and Xbox Series X.
This GPU features hardware-accelerated ray tracing and variable rate shading. Although these two features are not yet available in current mobile games.
However, the performance of the Exynos 2200 when compared to Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was not as expected. Even in terms of graphics capabilities.
When tested by Erdi züağ, a reviewer based in Turkey, the S22 Ultra with the Exynos 2200 SoC (Xclipse 920 GPU) turned out to have 42% lower graphics performance than the Adreno 730 GPU on Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in the 3DMark Wild Life test.
Then when tested using GFXBench Manhattan, the S22 Ultra with Exynos 2200 was 30% slower than the S22 Ultra with Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
züağ concludes that the low Exynos 2200 benchmark score is because the GPU speed is too low, which is only 555 MHz, lower than the supposed speed, which is 1.3GHz. According to him, Samsung may release a software update to fix this problem.
In other tests, it was also revealed that the CPU performance was not satisfactory. Reported by Wccftech, the ability of the Exynos 2200 CPU was not satisfactory. From tests conducted by TechAltar, the Exynos 2200 CPU is only 5% faster than the Exynos 2100 used in the Galaxy S21.