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Samsung's First Exynos 9 Chip is Faster, Uses Less Power, and Supports Gigabit LTE
Samsung is taking a big step forward on both processing and LTE speeds with its next mobile system on a chip. From a report on The Verge: The chip, called the Exynos 9 Series 8895, is supposed to perform 27 percent faster than its predecessor and consume 40 percent less power. It's also Samsung's first to support gigabit LTE, offering much faster speeds on networks that support it. The big gains come from Samsung shifting over to a 10nm process for this chip series, allowing it to make a more efficient processor. That means Samsung is following right behind Qualcomm on the move from a 14nm process to a 10nm process. Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon SoC, the 835, also uses a 10nm process and supposed includes speed improvements and a 25 percent power reduction. The Exynos 8895 has an octa-core processor, and its GPU is supposed to include graphics improvements for 4K VR and gaming. Samsung says the processor supports video recording at 120FPS 4K and cameras with a resolution up to 28MP.
But can it run crysis?
is it flammable?
Why are you even bringing that up? TFS doesn't even mention the A10 or talk about the Exynos 9 being the fastest SoC, just faster and more efficient than their previous Exynos 8, which should be expected if they're manufacturing it on a new process node and made no architectural changes at all.
But you are stuck with Apple. Not worth it.
If not, this is decidedly a step back. Removing features in new products is not impressive!
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
So were down to comparing rates of improvements? How does one compare two brands when one of them got 25% faster than it's last chip and the other got 40% faster. Does that mean the latter was abysmally slow to begin with so it was easier to make faster. There's no information content here.
it's also not news.
A newsworthy headline would be samsung latest processor is slower and uses more battery. I full expect every generation to be better than the last but if you can't actually make useful comparisons there's nothing newsworthy here.
thanks for posting a press release.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Maybe. Maybe not. The sizes given for processes often do not mean what they seem to mean. But sure, Intel will have to play catch-up for a few years. And maybe they will even try a non-criminal way this time.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
He's bringin it up because there's nothing about absoulte speed here. Samsung is saying they made their processor faster by a larger margin than qualcom did this year but they are not saying it's faster than qualcoms. they did the same thing with the A10. samsung claimed a faster clock speed and big improvements in battery usage. Meanwhile the slower clock spees A10 is actually faster to do anything, and uses less battery.
his point is samsung spec are completely non-informative.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I just keep waiting, arm processors are eventually going to replace x86 probably in every consumer device except hardcore gamer equipment with in the next 3-5 years. There are supposed to be windows arm devices coming out later this year with the snapdragon 835 and x86 32bit emulation.
He's bringin it up because there's nothing about absoulte speed here. Samsung is saying they made their processor faster by a larger margin than qualcom did this year but they are not saying it's faster than qualcoms. they did the same thing with the A10. samsung claimed a faster clock speed and big improvements in battery usage. Meanwhile the slower clock spees A10 is actually faster to do anything, and uses less battery.
his point is samsung spec are completely non-informative.
...and actually deceitful; which is far worse to the consumer.
But you are stuck with Apple. Not worth it.
I don't see it as "stuck" with anything but a "secure" device and "secure" Apps.
It that's "stuck", then consider me happily glued.
This article gives good analysis of the latest nodes:
https://www.semiwiki.com/forum...
Samsung's 10nm is about 10% denser than Intel's 14nm
Isn't the display the biggest energy hog on the phone? Did I miss something?
Yeah so secure you can't actually load files onto the phone without jumping through hoops in iTunes. It tells me a file generated by Lame is unsupported and then copies it anyhow and guess what? It plays just fine.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Yeah so secure you can't actually load files onto the phone without jumping through hoops in iTunes. It tells me a file generated by Lame is unsupported and then copies it anyhow and guess what? It plays just fine.
What's your point?
Security getting in the way of functionality. Let me access the phone storage like any Android device.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
Security getting in the way of functionality. Let me access the phone storage like any Android device.
And we have all seen how well that is working out for Android...