Apple’s processors are well known for their tremendous single-core performance, but their rivals usually tackle multi-threaded tests more successfully. The latter translates to the ability to handle various tasks and spread the workload to all eight cores.
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Luckily, Samsung is beginning to understand the benefits of modifying ARM cores in order to extract the most performance possible while keeping power consumption in check.
The SD820 will be based on Samsung’s 14nm FinFET process that results in the improved efficiency of the chipset.
While the Exynos still uses big.LITTLE configuration with quad-core Cortex A53 on the low-end, Samsung has designed its own, custom quad-core architecture for the high-performing cores dubbed Exynos M1.
Samsung says the 64-bit chip will offer a 30 percent performance improvement and 10 percent more power efficiency over its Exynos 7 chip inside many of its current phones.
As for the chip’s on-board GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), this new processor will be equipped with an Adreno 530 card and will be capable of producing 4K quality when doing a playback as well as capturing using the camera of the handset it is equipped on.
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Moving on, the chip features an ARM Mali-T880 GPU and Cat. “Supporting LTE Category 12 download speeds of up to 600 Mbps, and LTE Category 13 uplink speeds of up to 150 Mbps, the Snapdragon 820 processor with X12 LTE supports 33% faster peak download speeds, and triple the peak upload speeds of Snapdragon 810 processor with X10 LTE”, according to a statement. The processor should show up in devices sometime next year. Snapdragon 820 SoC will also mark the return on Qualcomm’s custom processors, with Qualcomm Kyro CPU being part of the 820 SoC. Devices sporting Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 will only start hitting the markets in the first half of 2016, ideally from March – April onwards. Likely candidates for the SoC would be the presumed Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge and Galaxy Note 6.
