14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung usually releases its flagship smartphones and tablets running a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip or an Exynos SoC, depending on the region. This year won’t be different, as the Galaxy S8 is said to be powered by the latest Snapdragon 835 or a new Exynos chip, according to SamMobile.
The Galaxy S8 will be the first smartphone to run the Snapdragon 835 SoC, as Samsung is said to have dibs on the initial production of the new chipset. This is why some smartphone makers preferred to equip their upcoming phones with SD821, rather than wait and launch them in a few months. This is the case of LG and its G6.
While the Galaxy S8 with SD835 will be launched in certain regions, others will receive the phone running Exynos 9810 SoC inside, like Europe and some countries in Asia.
Exynos 9810 will be based on the same 10nm process
Information about the upcoming Exynos chipset was revealed by an intern at Samsung’s Bangalore R&D Institute, who suggested on his LinkedIn profile page that the upcoming Exynos processor would carry the name Exynos 9810.
Reports say that there could be two variants of the Exynos 9810 chip: Exynos 9810V and Exynos 9810M. The former could feature an eighteen-core Mali-G71 graphics processing unit, while the second might have a 20-core Mali-G71 GPU. The chipset might have four Mongoose M2 CPU cores, upgraded from last year’s Exynos M1 CPU cores, and four Cortex A53 cores.
The Exynos 9 series are said to be built on the same 10nm FinFET technology and will directly compete against Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 SoC, Huawei’s Kirin 970 chip and Apple’s A10 Fusion SoC.
Other reports say that the Exynos 9810 will offer better performance and improved power consumption, but will lack support for a wide range of networks. The Galaxy S8 with Exynos 9810 inside is said to feature a price of at least $874.
Recent reports say that Samsung might offer a variant with 6GB of RAM and 64GB (128GB) of internal storage in China, possibly coupled with Snapdragon 835 SoC. In that market, Samsung is directly competing against Chinese smartphone makers which offer premium devices with high RAM capacity.