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Samsung today released an infographic revealing more details about its Exynos 8 Octa chipset. The company had officially announced the chipset back in November last year. The Exynos 8 Octa is widely expected to be used by the Korean company inside selected variants of the Galaxy S7, which is rumored to be unveiled at MWC next month.
The Exynos 8 Octa is the first chipset from Samsung to use its own custom ARM cores. The octa-core chip features four low-power ‘LITTLE’ cores and four big cores for heavy duty tasks. Compared to the Exynos 7420, Samsung says that the Exynos 8 Octa provides a 30 percent improvement in performance while being 10 percent more energy efficient at the same time.
Like the Exynos 7420 chipset found inside the Galaxy S6 and Note 5, the Exynos 8 Octa is based on Samsung’s 14nm FinFET fabrication process. The integrated LTE modem inside the chipset supports LTE Cat.12 for downlink that allows for a maximum theoretical download speeds of up to 600Mbps and Cat.13 for uplink for maximum upload speeds of up to 150Mbps. Samsung did not provide any details about the GPU performance of the chipset, except for stating that it now supports up to 4K resolution displays and is capable of delivering a PC or console-like gaming experience.
You can view the full infographic below by clicking on it.
