Samsung Confirms Nearly Flagship Exynos 1080 Processor On Nov 12
Samsung has confirmed that it will unveil it is new 5G SoC Exynos 1080 as early as November 12 – the chip was confirmed to exist earlier last month. The company has already announced that it will use the latest ARM Cortex-A78 processor cores and the ARM Mali-G78 graphics accelerator.
The Cortex-A78 cores provide a 20% performance increase over the Cortex-A77 used in the Exynos 980, as well as faster performance in machine learning (ML) tasks, and the Mali-G78 graphics accelerator provides a 25% performance increase (15% in terms of area) compared to the GPU Mali-G77. The recently announced result of the chip in AnTuTu showed that it is gaining 693,600 points, which is significantly superior to the latest Snapdragon 865+ chip.
It is expected to be the first Samsung processor to use a 5nm process, with the Exynos 980 using 8nm and the Exynos 990 using 7nm. Apple’s A14 Bionic SoC and Huawei’s Kirin 9000 already use a 5nm process, but from TSMC. Note that last year’s Exynos 980 underpins the Galaxy A51 5G and A71 5G, so the Exynos 1080 could be used in the mid-range A-series phones in 2021.
We will find out the full technical characteristics of the Exynos 1080 after the full announcement on the 12th. The chip is expected to receive support for LPDDR5 and UFS 3.1, and will also be able to work with screens with a refresh rate of up to 120 Hz. The Exynos 1080 could be a Samsung exclusive for the Chinese market, and the next global flagship processor will be the Exynos 2100, which will compete against the Snapdragon 875 and will also deliver GPU performance on par with the Adreno 660.
