Samsung Unveils 20 Percent Faster Exynos 990 Mobile Chip

From PC Mag: f you've decided to give the Galaxy S10 a miss and wait for the inevitable Galaxy S11, we have some good news! Samsung just announced the mobile chip it will most likely use in its next flagship phone and it's 20 percent faster.

At the Samsung Tech Day 2019, the company unveiled two new chips: the Exynos 990 mobile processor and the 5G Exynos Modem 5123. Both are manufactured using 7nm extreme ultra-violet (EUV) process technology and with it realize a number of performance benefits.

The Exynos 990 promises to be a little performance powerhouse through a combination of a tri-cluster (octa-core) CPU consisting of two custom cores, two Cortex-A76 cores, and four Cortex-A55 cores alongside an embedded ARM Mali-G77 GPU. That GPU uses the new Valhall architecture, which when ARM first announced it promised 30 percent better energy efficiency and performance density combined with a 60 percent improvement for machine learning.

Samsung claims the Exynos 990 offers a performance improvement of 20 percent both for the CPU and GPU compared to its previous premium Exynos chip. Not only will that allow for faster mobile devices, but Samsung includes support for LPDDR5 memory, 120Hz refresh rate displays, and an advanced image signal processor paves the way for up to 108-megapixel photography as well as concurrent processing of up to three image sensors while supporting up to six per device.

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