The Exynos 8890 will power Samsung’s next flagship in 2016

Sep 23, 2015 13:47 GMT  ·  By

It’s no secret that Samsung is working on a sequel for its Exynos 7420 chipset which is currently powering the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Note5 premium devices. The silicon piece is known as the Exynos 8890 or the M1 and we can expect it to make a debut into the Galaxy S7 flagship next year.

Like Samsung’s current premium chip, the Exyos 8890 will be a pretty powerful platform, but according to new information, it seems that the M1 will maintain the same gap in performance levels between it and Apple’s A9 processor, as it happened in the case of the Exynos 7420 and Apple A8 pair.

A prolific Weibo leakster who has been known for predicting things in an accurate way (as picked up at G for Games) claims that the Samsung Exynos M1 was recently spotted in the Geekbench database working at a frequency of 2.4GHz.

Exynos 8890 shows up in benchmarks

Apparently, the silicon managed to score 2,304 points in the single-threaded test and 8,038 points in the multi-threaded test. Interestingly enough, the leakster doesn’t provide us with the screenshots to prove his info is legitimate.

Compared to the A9, the Exynos M1 managed to score 1.7 times better in the multi-core performance test and got a 1.1 times weaker score in the single-core test. This, according to the source, is similar to the gap in performance between the A8 and Exynos 7420.

When it was announced, Apple said that the A9 chipset boasted 70% improved CPU power and up to 90% more in GPU performance compared to its predecessor. Naturally, the SoC will soon see some competition coming from Qualcomm with its Snapdragon 820 processor and from Samsung’s new Exynos.

The sources couldn’t get a confirmation whether the Exynos M1 spotted in benchmarks was actually running under the hood of a Galaxy S7 test unit or something else. Speaking of which, not all units of Samsung’s upcoming flagship will take advantage of the company’s home-grown chipset.

Some variants will be launching with a Snapdragon 820 chipset under the hood and 4GB of RAM. By contrast, the Exynos version is expected to make it out into the wild with only 3GB of RAM.