Unlike in the
past, Samsung is expected to use its Exynos 7 Octa-core 64-bit chipset for the
upcoming Galaxy S6 flagship smartphone. In the past few weeks we have seen many
new reports appear on the web that detail the reasons behind Samsung choosing
to stick to its Exynos 7420 chipset for the Galaxy S6. A recent report even
claimed that Qualcomm may provide Samsung with a special variant of the
Snapdragon 810 for the Galaxy S6. However, it doesn’t look like the use of the
Exynos 7420 chip will disappoint anyone as it managed to perform admirably well
in the Geekbench benchmark recently.
The Exynos
7420 managed to score impressively high in the Geekbench test with a
single-core score of 1520 and multi-core score of 5478. The single-core score
is higher than Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 devices, with only the NVIDIA Tegra K1
chipset in the Google Nexus 9 managing a better score than the Exynos 7420.
However, in the multi-core test the Exynos 7420 managed to gain a massive lead
over all current mobile chipsets, including the NVIDIA Tegra K1 and the
Snapdragon 805. The Google Nexus 9 manages a score of around 3200 on the
multi-core test while the Snapdragon 805 powered devices like the Google Nexus
6 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 can score a shade under 3000. We still do not
have any leaked benchmarks of the Snapdragon 810 to go by, but it does look
like the Galaxy S6 will be one powerful beast when it launches.
We also need
to keep in mind that the device that was run through the Geekbench test is most
likely a prototype device running on unfinished software. On final hardware
with the updated software, the scores can go up slightly. So all in all we’re
looking at one of the most impressive mobile chipsets of the year in the new
Exynos 7420. In the Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy S5, the Exynos chipsets didn’t
quite manage to bowl us over with the performance, but this year it seems like
Samsung has worked really hard on the new Exynos chipsets and it doesn’t seem
like anyone will miss the Snapdragon 810 as far as both performance and
connectivity goes. Unlike previous Exynos chipsets, the Exynos 7420 is expected
to arrive with an integrated LTE Cat.9 modem with Tri-Band Carrier Aggregation
like on the recently announced Korean variant of the Galaxy Note 4.
Together with
the rumored light TouchWiz version that is expected to debut with the Galaxy
S6, the Exynos 7420 chip is likely to ensure butter smooth performance on the
Galaxy S6, with none of the performance issues that all Galaxy flagships have
suffered from so far.
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