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Mobile World Congress doesn't starting time for a few days, simply Samsung has already jumped the gun to denote its ain SoC. The Exynos 8895 volition be the first 10nm chip produced in commercial volume, and it'll characteristic a new custom CPU core of Samsung's own design.

We've discussed Samsung's M1 processor earlier, since that chip featured in some versions of the Galaxy S7, merely there's no word on what kind of features or capabilities Samsung has baked into the core. With this version of the cadre following difficult on the heels of the previous, it seems safe to assume it'll be a tweaked version of the M1 core, optimized for improve performance and the 10nm procedure, but not a new compages or huge overhaul of the CPU cadre.

Samsung has previously described its 10nm LPE process every bit offering either 27% improved operation or 40% reduced ability, and the Exynos 8895 is withal an eight-cadre design with four Cortex-A53s and 4 Samsung M2 CPUs running at an unknown clock speed.

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The Samsung M1 is a wide design capable of decoding four instructions per cycle. It can retire and rename four micro-ops per bicycle and tin consequence up to seven micro-ops per cycle. Its L2 cache is 2MB (split between cores), with a 22 bicycle latency — relatively high, as such things get, but this likely saves ability compared with a more aggressive blueprint.
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We don't know anything about M2 performance yet, but the M1 was generally quite potent against the Cortex-A57. It didn't win every benchmark, even with a higher clock speed, but it would've at least offered performance parity at equal clock speed in many tests.

GPU operation is provided past the ARM Republic of mali G71MP20. The G71 is based on ARM's Bifrost architecture, which we discussed in more than detail here. The G71 can calibration up to 32 shader cores, much higher than previous GPU cores, and ARM claims it offers 20% free energy efficiency, 20% more bandwidth, and fifty% higher performance when implemented on the same process as the older Republic of mali-T760. Samsung is challenge a performance boost of threescore% (likely thanks to 10nm) but exact details aren't yet available. Finally, the Exynos 8895 will likewise use LPDDR4x, an evolution of the LPDDR4 standard that can reduce DRAM ability consumption by upwardly to xx%.

With Cat16 LTE support supporting download speeds of up to 1Gbps, Samsung is conspicuously trying to carve out a niche for itself every bit a no-holds-barred high-operation company. Nosotros'll have to wait how to run into how the chip compares every bit a whole with the Apple A10 Fusion or Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835. But Samsung seems to accept a very good shot at breaking Android performance benchmarks when the Galaxy S8 hits later this year.