14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung prides itself with the new Exynos 8890 chipset manufactured on a 14nm process, which is supposed to be the most powerful on the market thanks to its eight cores.
The first Samsung smartphones to come equipped with Exynos 8890 chipset, the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge, were officially unveiled yesterday and will make it to market in mid-March.
However, Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge will come in two flavors based on the chipset inside, so depending on region customers could get either the Qualcomm-based version powered by a Snapdragon 820 CPU or the one equipped with an Exynos 8890 processor.
Although artificial benchmarks might be meaningful for some customers when deciding to purchase a certain smartphone, why not take a look at how powerful the Galaxy S7 equipped with the Exynos 8890 CPU really is, just for the sake of it.
The folks over at GSMArena have taken the Galaxy S7 through some benchmarks like AnTuTu, GeekBench 3, GFXBench and Basemark X, with surprising results.
The Exynos 8890 does not seem to be as powerful as Samsung would let us believe, even though it does crush the competition in AnTuTu.
Huawei Kirin 950's scores are very close to Samsung's Exynos 8890 chipset
The Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge are by far the most powerful smartphones in AnTuTu with a score of 114250. Huawei Mate 8, which comes equipped with a Kirin 950 chipset inside, is second with 91609 points, followed closely by Huawei Nexus 6P with 89345 and Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ with 83167.
Unfortunately for Samsung, things are a bit different when Galaxy S7 has been taken through GeekBench 3 multi-core test. The smartphone scored 6395, not that high in comparison with Huawei Mate 8 that comes in second with 6323 points.
The GPU inside the Galaxy S7, the Mali-T880 has been tested as well, and it looks to be on par with the Adreno 430 graphics processing unit inside the Sony Xperia Z5 Premium.
You can find the rest of the results below, and while Galaxy S7 / Galaxy S7 edge did score high in some tests, they are surely up for a stiff competition with Huawei's Kirin 950 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 chipsets.
