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EXYNOS IS BACK with 2100 - Can it rival Snapdragon?

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Samsung has always resorted to using two different SOC's in their flagship mobile phones depending on the region they retail in. One of these comes from Qualcomm Snapdragon series, which is primarily used in the US market and the other from Samsung's own in-house Exynos, which is used in most parts of the world. 

There were times when Exynos chips were considered more powerful than their Snapdragon counterparts, however, the tables eventually started to turn when last year's Exynos 990 was easily dominated by the Snapdragon 865 in almost every aspect, leading to a better user experience overall. One area where Snapdragon was always ahead of Exynos was power efficiency which eventually contributed to better thermals and battery life. This was highlighted even further with the Exynos 990's poor thermal design and battery backup which was greatly criticized by consumers around the world.

However, Samsung has decided to try its best to bring its in house Exynos chips to at least match the level of its Snapdragon counterparts, if not better. 
With the Exynos 2100, its latest flagship-tier SoC fabricated on a 5nm process node, Samsung has given up on its custom Mongoose cores and the new SoC exclusively uses Arm’s Cortex cores.



The chipset sports one Arm Cortex-X1 core clocked at 2.9GHz, three Cortex-A78 CPU cores at 2.8GHz, and four Cortex-A55 cores running at 2.2GHz. This is the same CPU core setup seen on the Snapdragon 888. Samsung says the new CPU setup enables a 30% boost to multi-core performance over the Exynos 990. The Korean brand also points to the 5nm fabrication process, which enables 20% lower power consumption or 10% better overall performance.

For Graphical performance, the Exynos 2100 employs the new Mali-G78 MP14 GPU, leading to a 40% better graphical performance. In addition, the Exynos 2100 adopts an integrated 5G modem with sub-6GHz and mmWave capabilities. Sub-6GHz downlink speeds theoretically top out at 5.1Gbps, while mmWave speeds top out at 7.35Gbps. 

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The Exynos 2100 also offers 200MP camera support, 8K/30fps recording, 8K/60fps playback, AV1 codec support, and 4K/120fps recording. With support for up to 6 cameras, the Exynos 2100 features a so-called multi-camera and frame processor (MCFP) within the ISP, which is able to combine data from multiple sensors to deliver improved zoom, better wide-angle shots, and much more.

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One of the most significant element of any smartphone is its display. The processor supports up to 144 Hz HDR10+ displays with up to 4K resolution and also enables 8K TV-out so that you can watch 8K video that has been shot on smartphones in more detail.

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In today's world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming a major boom, the new Samsung chipset delivers a tri-core NPU that boasts 26 TOPS of power and touts twice the power efficiency of the older Exynos 990, which in contrast featured 15 TOPS of power.

By the look of it, it seems that Samsung is back with a bang in the game of flagship mobile SoC's. The first phones to feature these new chipsets will be Samsung's flagship S21 series, which will be launched on 14 January 2021. Everybody has high hopes set for this generation of Exynos Chipset as it can be the deciding factor in whether Samsung is able to gain back its lost competition in the mobile SoC world or not!




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