Samsung’s new octa-core processor is one of the company’s first chips based on ARMv8 architecture. The Samsung Exynos 7 Octa is a 64-bit chip that features 4 ARM Cortex-A57 CPU cores and 4 lower-power ARM Cortex-A53 cores.
The company says the new chip is up to 57 percent faster than its older Exynos 5 Octa processors.
The 8 CPU cores are arranged using ARM’s big.LTTLE HMP architecture which allows up to all 8 cores to be used at once.
The new chip uses a 20nm process and features ARM Mali T-760 graphics.
It supports screen resolutions up to 2560 x 1600 pixels, can handle 4K H.265/HEVC video playback, and has an image signal processor that can support devices with 16MP rear and 5MP front-facing cameras.
via G for Games
Put that processor in a 13.3 inch Chromebook with 4gb RAM for $299 and I’ll buy two of them!
Woah. 20nm. How the hell did Samsung pull that off.
They spent 2 billion dollars 2 years ago, which was one quarter of the profit they made that year.
https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/24/samsungs-big-q4-2012-52-4-billion-in-revenue-is-nice-but-operating-profit-surged-89-year-over-year-to-8-27-billion/
https://www.techspot.com/news/48921-samsung-to-invest-19-billion-in-mobile-chip-line-readies-20nm-and-14nm-production.html
That’s what i call money well spent.
It’ll be interesting to see how this compares in benchmarks to the K1 (both 32 and 64 bit versions) and the 32-bit Snapdragon 805!
Was just going to ask if anyone knew how these stack up against the K1’s, I guess it’s early days & I’m sure we’ll see plenty of comparisons before too long.
We also might have to wait for 64-bit versions of benchmark apps to show up if the code isn’t in there already. I think that’s why the 5S and 6 model iPhones do so well in single core tests in Geekbench against current 32-bit chips on Android.
If I’m wrong and anyone wants to explain, correct me.
K1 can easily beat it in term of GPU. They have a clear advantage in that category.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/8296/the-nvidia-shield-tablet-review/5
my bet is 66% higher scores.
If it’s 66% better than K1 that means it’s also quite a bit better than Intel’s BayTrail Atom chips, which would make it very interesting for use in Chromebooks! 🙂 (But I’m skeptical)
I am not sure that the Exynos7 will beat the Denver K1 for everyday tasks, in a
thermally-limited environment (like a phone or even a tablet). The Exynos7 will probably need to throttle back since 4 fully loaded A57s are fairly hungry.
According to NV, Denver has much higher IPC compared to the base
Cortex-A57 which Samsung uses in the Exynos7. True, the K1 it is only
dual-core, so heavily multi-threaded apps will run slower on it than on a fully loaded, 8-core HMP Exynos7. In a phone/tablet environment, the workload is NOT heavily multithreaded, so the higher IPC of the Denver is actually a big advantage here (a good trade-off).
The Exynos7 may be a better notebook processor than the dual K1 due to the number of cores. In a notebook environment, the full thermal envelope of the Exynos may be used without throttling so all of its raw power may be unleashed if the applications can utilize it (which I doubt, even in this environment). I hope NV produces a 4-core Denver variant for laptops soon.
Yeah, apps/programs that take full advantage of eight (or even four) cores are few and far between 🙁