As the most powerful mobile processor last year, the Exynos 7420's excellent performance has made Samsung far away from its competitors such as the Snapdragon 810. Qualcomm learned from the bitter experience this year, and the Snapdragon 820 designed with its own architecture has excellent performance. Samsung followed suit with the introduction of its first Exynos 8890 using its own architecture, the "mongoose". Today, Samsung released a detailed picture of Exynos 8890. Let's take a look at Orion.
According to the current news, there is no doubt that Samsung Exynos 8890 will be the strongest mobile processor in 2016. Exynos 8890 uses four autonomous 64 bit Mongoose CPU cores, with the frequency up to 2.3GHz; With four Cortex-A53 public cores, the frequency is 1.56GHz; The mongoose cooperates with A53. The mongoose is responsible for high performance, while A53 has high energy efficiency, HMP heterogeneous hybrid architecture, and intelligent switching; The comprehensive performance is 30% higher than Exynos 7420, and the energy efficiency is 10% higher.
In terms of graphics processor, Exynos adopts Mali-T880MP12， Up to 12 cores. From the performance of Mali-T880MP4 currently used by Kirin 950, Exynos8890, which has three times more GPU cores than Kirin 950, may be able to compete with Adreno530 of Snapdragon 820 in GPU performance.
Exynos 8890 will still use Samsung's own 14nm FinFET manufacturing process, and 3D transistors will greatly reduce chip size, improve performance and energy efficiency. Although the performance and power consumption of Samsung OEM Apple A9 processor is slightly weaker than TSMC's 16nm version, from the perspective that AMD processor will use Samsung technology this year, Samsung's 14nm FinFET is undoubtedly still one of the best technologies at present.
In addition to the significant improvement in processing performance, Samsung has also made remarkable progress in communication baseband. Exynos integrated LTE baseband supports Cat.12 600Mbps for download and Cat.13 150Mbps for upload.
