Samsung presents Exynos 8895-soc with gigabit modem and twenty GPU cores

Samsung has announced its Exynos 9 series 8895-soc. It is an octacore made on a 10nm finfet process with four self-designed cores and four ARM Cortex-53 cores. The GPU is the Mali-G71 in a version with twenty cores.

Samsung does not give any details about the clock speeds of the computing cores, but the manufacturer claims that the new soc offers 27 percent better performance, or consumes 40 percent less power compared to chips made with the 14nm process. Like the Exynos 8890-soc from the Galaxy S7 phones, the new 8895-soc has a big.Little design with four Samsung-designed Mongoose cores. It concerns the second generation of those computing cores, which are based on the ARM v8 architecture. The four other cores are frugal ARM Cortex-53 copies.

Samsung uses the latest GPU design from ARM in the Exynos 8895: the Mali-G71, in a version with twenty cores. Huawei uses the same GPU in its Kirin 960-soc, but with eight cores. According to Samsung, the GPU configuration of the new soc is more than 60 percent faster than that of its predecessor. In the Exynos 8890, Samsung used a Mali-T880 with twelve cores.

The Exynos 8895 has an integrated modem that supports 4G download speeds of up to 1Gbit/s using carrier aggregation. The modem supports an upload speed of up to 150Mbit/s. The soc can handle the GPS, Glonass and BeiDou navigation systems. Support for the European Galileo is lacking. The Exynos 8895 has a separate security processing unit that is used for security options such as iris and fingerprint recognition.

The isp of the 8895 is suitable for cameras with a resolution of up to 28 megapixels on the front and back of a device. According to Samsung, the soc has a double isp, where one is used for high quality and another is focused on low consumption. The soc can record and play back video with a 4k resolution and a frame rate of 120fps. There is support for codecs such as h.265, h.264 and vp9. The soc can drive displays with uhd resolutions. Samsung specifically mentions resolutions of 3840×2400 and 4096×2160 pixels.

Samsung has published the information on a page about the new high-end soc. The South Korean manufacturer does not yet mention in which devices the chip will end up, but the Exynos 8895 will probably find its way to models of the Galaxy S8.