Just a day or so after Qualcomm made public its newest baby, the Snapdragon 820, we are seeing Samsung do the same with their newest processor from the Samsung foundries – the Exynos 8 Octa. Speaking of Qualcomm, these two new processors are practically brothers, as the SD820 was made in the same foundries with the same 14-nanometer FinFET process. But the focus is on the new Exynos processor and what it brings to the market.
Aside from having a smaller footprint than most processors built with a 20-nanometer process, the Exynos 8 Octa boasts of a 30 percent performance improvement over the last generation Exynos 7 Octa. It also features a highly notable 10 percent improvement in power efficiency from the last generation, making the devices that will carry this work better for less battery consumption.
The Exynos 8 Octa will also feature the latest Cat. 12/13 LTE modem from Samsung, the fastest of its kind these days (but only if your carrier has the bandwith to offer as well). Lastly, the new processor will feature ARM’s latest Mali-T880 GPU for immersive graphics and visuals.
It is rumored that the Samsung Galaxy S7 – to be launched in February 2016 – will sport variants that have the Qualcomm SD820 (in the US and China) and variants that will feature the Exynos 8 Octa (elsewhere in the world). We hope to see the numbers on this new processor soon, so watch this space.
SOURCE: Samsung
