Samsung Orion Exynos 980 performance analysis: breaking the situation of Qualcomm and Huawei competing between the two

A few years ago, when it was still the 3G era, Samsung mobile phones were the number one mobile phone brand in the world in terms of sales volume, and the number one sales volume in the world for several consecutive years, and was also popular in China. Most importantly, the Orion Exynos chip built into Samsung's mobile phone was once the only competitor of Qualcomm's chip. It has unique advantages in terms of performance, processing speed, and cost.

In the 4G era, as the share of Samsung mobile phones has shortened, Samsung Orion Exynos has gradually fallen into the altar, and the number of users paying attention to the Orion Exynos chip is decreasing. Part of the more active choice of mobile phones with built-in Qualcomm chips, Qualcomm 8 series became synonymous with flagship mobile phones for a while.

However, things have changed again. On September 4th, Samsung Electronics officially released the Samsung Orion Exynos 980 chip. This is a real world's first 5G baseband SoC. The computing/image performance, heating and battery life have reached the top parameters, which can be described as the next 5G era. The strongest flagship chip.

top performance, Exynos 980 stabilized

Samsung Orion Exynos 980 as the first 5G baseband SoC, CPU performance can be described as double the enhancement . Samsung Orion Exynos 980 adopts 8nm FinFET process technology, integrates 2 2.2GHz Cortex-A77 large cores and 4 1.8GHz Cortex-A55 performance cores, to realize the efficient collaboration of hardware foundation and solution

Looking at the flagship chips such as Kirin 980 and Snapdragon 855, they are all based on the A76 architecture design. It can be said that recent generations of ARM high-performance core performance has been quite successful.

Samsung Orion Exynos 980 uses the latest architecture released by ARM this year, which brings a nearly 20% improvement, and the memory bandwidth is well over 15% improvement. Of course, the following three top platforms, the Samsung Orion Exynos 9830, Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 and Huawei Kirin 1000, will all adopt the A77 architecture.

Therefore, it can be seen from the CPU that the Samsung Orion Exynos 980 is facing the flagship performance of the market. This time Samsung is not only pursuing technological innovation alone, but It is through insight into user needs, supported by technological innovation, to continuously optimize product functions to meet users' rigid needs, and powerful processing performance can bring many aspects of experience improvement.

New NPU

with AI performance increased to 2.7 times. From the perspective of the technical core of Samsung Orion Exynos 980, it will inevitably make it in the mobile phone industry. The most powerful and best SoC chip. Follow-up models equipped with Samsung Orion Exynos 980 can also create a fun experience that has never been seen before. Regarding the AI ​​processing performance in the 5G era, Samsung Orion Exynos 980 is equipped with a built-in NPU with an AI performance that is about 2.7 times higher than that of the previous generation. The AI ​​computing power is the same as the current Snapdragon 855 Plus.

The introduction of the new NPU is a mode of collaborative work between local hardware and cloud algorithms, in order to solve the two major pain points faced by the current mobile artificial intelligence application scenarios, and there will be a leap in the smart experience.

Samsung Orion Exynos 980 adopts a new ISP and supports up to 1.08100 million pixel independent camera, or dual 20 million pixel lens; up to 5 image sensors can be connected, and support 3 sensors to drive at the same time, the throughput and energy efficiency of the Samsung Orion Exynos 980 have been greatly improved, so as to achieve 120 per second Frame 4K video encoding and decoding, the advantage of the new NPU is here.

SoC

, which is truly designed for 5G networks, is known to all. Most of the 5G smartphones released this year are based on the addition of a baseband chip in addition to the SoC. The baseband SoC communicates normally, or introduces more network standard support for the old SoC. However, the plug-in solution will occupy internal space and have inherent defects in energy efficiency, signal, base station addressing speed, and other aspects. The follow-up is definitely not a direction of 5G development.

Therefore, in the 5G era that has come, the SoC integrated with the 5G baseband is the best solution. Compared with the external solution, the Samsung Orion Exynos 980 is the real meaning The previous mature 5G chip solution perfectly supports SA/NSA dual-mode.

In addition, the Samsung Orion Exynos 980 high-speed 5G performance is also extremely strong. In the 5G communication environment, data communication of up to 2.55Gbps can be achieved; even in the 4G communication environment, the maximum speed of 1.6Gbps can be achieved, and the Internet speed is extremely extreme.

It can be seen that the Samsung Orion Exynos 980 combines high-performance, high-speed 5G, new NPU, the strongest AI performance and many other experiences in one, in order to create more high-achievement and ultimate experience flagships in the 5G era Masterpiece. So, let us look forward to the subsequent appearance of products equipped with Samsung Orion Exynos 980 SoC, let us experience it for yourself.