Earlier this month, Samsung announced a new chip to compete with the new processor which are already launched or is about to launch. Samsung Exynos 9810 was a great chip but had some issue with the multicore performance, and because of a heat, the performance was dropping. Because the A55 cores were in a different cluster. With the 9820 Samsung solves this problem.
Recently All chips are made on 7nm Technology while Samsung’s Exynos is made on 8nm Technology; which shouldn’t make a huge difference os significantly improves the performance.
Improvement Over Exynos 9810:
| Samsung Exynos SoCs Specifications | ||
| SoC | Exynos 9820 | Exynos 9810 |
| CPU | 2x M4? @ ? GHz It does have L22x Cortex A75 @ ? GHz Probably L2 4x Cortex A55 @ ? GHz Shared complex L3 @ =>4MB |
4x M3 @ 1c2.7 / 2c2.3 / 4c1.8 GHz 4x 512KB L2 4096KB L34x Cortex A55 @ 1.8 GHz no L2 512KB L3 |
| GPU | Mali G76MP12 | Mali G72MP18 |
| Memory Controller |
4x 16-bit CH LPDDR4x @ ?MHz |
4x 16-bit CH LPDDR4x @ 1794MHz |
| Media | 8K30 & 4K150 encode & decode H.265/HEVC, H.264, VP9 |
10bit 4K120 encode & decode H.265/HEVC, H.264, VP9 |
| Modem | Shannon Integrated LTE (Category 20/13)DL = 2000 Mbps 8x20MHz CA, 256-QAM UL = 316 Mbps |
Shannon Integrated LTE (Category 18/13)DL = 1200 Mbps 6x20MHz CA, 256-QAM UL = 200 Mbps |
| ISP | Rear: 22MP Front: 22MP Dual: 16MP+16MP |
Rear: 24MP Front: 24MP Dual: 16MP+16MP |
| Mfc. Process |
Samsung 8nm LPP |
Samsung 10nm LPP |
Samsung said Exynos 9820 is a significant upgrade over the Exynos 9810. The new M4 cores are 20% faster than the last years M3 cores which also reduces the size as only two M4 core used in the new chip. The latest chip is 40% power efficient than the 9810 which is a great improvement. The Power efficiency of the 9820 is still less compared to the Kirin 980.
Kirin 980 vs Exynos 9820:
| Exynos 9820 | Kirin 980 | |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | 2x M4? @ ? GHz It does have L2 2x Cortex A75 @ ? GHz Probably L2 4x Cortex A55 @ ? GHz Let's hope it has L2 Shared complex L3 @ =>4MB | 2x A76 @ 2.60 GHz 2x A76 @ 1.92 GHz @ 512KB L2's 4x A55 @ 1.80 GHz @ 128KB L2's 4MB DSU L3 |
| GPU | Mali G76 - 12 Cores | ARM Mali-G76 - 10 Cores |
| Memory | 4x 16-bit CH LPDDR4x @ ?MHz | 4x 16-bit CH LPDDR4X @ 2133MHz 34.1GB/s |
| Storage I/F | UFS 3.0 | UFS 2.1 |
| Media | 8K30 & 4K150 encode & decode H.265/HEVC, H.264, VP9 | 2160p60 Decode 2160p30 Encode |
| Modem | Shannon Integrated LTE (Category 20/13) DL = 2000 Mbps 8x20MHz CA, 256-QAM UL = 316 Mbps 3x20MHz CA, 256-QAM | Kirin 980 Integrated LTE (Category 21/18) DL = 1400 Mbps 4x4 MIMO 3x20MHz CA, 256-QAM (5CA no MIMO) UL = 200 Mbps 2x2 MIMO 1x20MHz CA, 256-QAM |
| Manufacturing Process | 8nm | 7nm |
Benchmarks: Kirin 980 vs Exynos 9820 (Expected Geekebench Score)
Exynos 9810 Single core score is even higher than the Kirin 980 so it is obvious Exynos 9820 will beat the Kirin 980 in a single core geekbench score. The expected scores are shown in an image.
Kirin 980 performs much better in the Multi-Core score. It scores more than 10,000 in a multicore score coming close the Apple’s A12 Bionic. Samsung Exynos 9820 might cross the mark.
Samsung Exynos 9820 definitely performs better in the theory and on Expected benchmarks. This processor will be used in the upcoming S10 so let’s see how it performs in real life when it comes out.
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