Not to be outshone by the announcement of the flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, Samsung has announced its own flagship application processor – the Exynos 8 Octa to succeed the Exynos 7 Octa 7420 which powered the Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge, Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+.
The Samsung Exynos 8 Octa is the first processor from the company to use custom CPU cores based on 64-bit ARMv8 architecture (rumoured to be called Mongoose) and is the second to be produced using the 14nm FinFET production process. It is also the first integrated one-chip processor from Samsung which has the application and modem combined.
The new processor which has has an Octa-core (4 x custom cores + 4 x ARM Cortex-A53 cores) offers over 30-percent improvement in performance and around 10-percent in power efficiency compared to the Exynos 7 Octa 7420.
It uses ARM Mali-T880 MP4 GPU for graphics which supports up to 4K Ultra HD (4096 x 2160) display resolution and is equipped with LTE Rel.12 Cat.12/13 modem that provides up to 600Mbps download speed (Cat.12) and up to 150Mbps upload speed (Cat.13).
The Samsung Exynos 8 Octa 8890 was spotted on a Samsung device on Geekbench database in September with an impressive score of 1409 in single core category and 4882 in the multi core category but is smaller compared to the 1710 and 6245 (respectively) a device powered by the Kirin 950 posted on benchmark.
Commenting on the launch, Vice President of System LSI marketing, Samsung Electronics, Dr. Kyushik Hong said;
“The Exynos 8 Octa is a leading-edge application processor for next generation mobile devices that incorporates Samsung’s mobile technology leadership in CPU, ISP, and modem as well as process technology. With our custom designed CPU cores and the industry’s most advanced LTE modem, consumers using mobile devices with the Exynos 8 Octa will experience a new level of mobile computing.”
Source: Samsung
