Samsung has unveiled its first 5nm SoC, the Exynos 1080 at an event in Shanghai, China. The newest addition to the line-up is not only the successor to the Exynos 980 with integrated 5G modem, but it will also power upper mid-range devices and feature Cortex-A78 CPU cores and Mali-G78 GPU technology. The company confirms the chipset will make its debut in Vivo smartphones in 2021.
Manufactured using the 5nm Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) FinFET processing technology, the Exynos 1080 has an octa-core CPU with tri-cluster design that consists of four ARM Cortex-A78 cores – one clocked at 2.8GHz for peak performance and three others clock up to 2.6GHz for balanced processing – and four Cortex-A55 cores @2GHz for power efficiency. The GPU is ARM’s 2nd-gen Valhall architecture-based Mali-G78 MP10.
The processor’s neural processing unit (NPU) and digital signal processor (DSP) boosts its capability of processing up to 5.7 trillion operations per second, which is suitable to run a wide range of AI applications. The 5G modem supports both mmWave and sub-6GHz standards, while the processor as a whole includes support for Bluetooth 5.2, Wi-Fi 6, FM Radio, UFS v3.1 storage, LPDDR5/LPDDR4x RAM, up to 144Hz refresh rate in FHD+, up to 200MP single camera and 32MP + 32MP dual camera.
Source: Samsung Exynos
