Samsung Next Mobile Super Chip Exynos 5 Dual Detailed

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By Jane McEntegart
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The future of Samsung phones.

We already know all about the quad core Exynos powering the international version of the Galaxy S III, and now we've learned about the company's next chip, the Exynos 5 Dual.

Samsung today announced the dual core Exynos 5 dual, which uses two ARM Cortex A15 cores running at up to 1.7GHz with a shared 1MB L2 cache and an ARM Mali-T604 GPU. The chip is designed with the 32nm lowpower process and offers support for up to 2560×1600 WQXGA display, 1080p 60fps video performance, OpenGL ES 3.0, OpenCL 1.1 full profile, WiFi Display, VP8 decoding, 12.8 GB/s memory bandwidth with 2 port 800 Mhz LPDDR3 RAM support, and (a first for a mobile device) support for the zippy USB 3.0 interface.

Android Authority reports that the dual-core 1.7 Ghz Exynos 5 Dual will compete with Qualcomm's dual core 1.7 Ghz S4. It should outperform both the S4 and the other top dog in the mobile chip market, Nvidia's Tegra 3, when it launches.

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19 Comments Comment from the forums
  • "It should outperform both the S4 and the other top dog in the mobile chip market, Nvidia's Tegra 3, when it launches."

    Should this say Tegra 3+ or 4?
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  • freggo
    Nice to see strong competition in this segment of the chip market. Drives innovation and performance!
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  • saturnus
    mybook43"It should outperform both the S4 and the other top dog in the mobile chip market, Nvidia's Tegra 3, when it launches."Should this say Tegra 3+ or 4?
    Either, I'd imagine.
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  • elcentral
    cool samsung is at rocking the performance charts agen. but im still more happy about battery life with performance, lets hope this one will handle power draw better or the same like the S3. the usb 3 will be extremely use full.
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  • guru_urug
    mybook43"It should outperform both the S4 and the other top dog in the mobile chip market, Nvidia's Tegra 3, when it launches."Should this say Tegra 3+ or 4?
    Im pretty sure the author meant the Tegra 3. The "when it launches" was in context for the new exynos chip mentioned in the article.
    So "When it launches(new exynos),It should outperform both the S4 and the other top dog in the mobile chip market, Nvidia's Tegra 3"

    Good to see the mobile SOC market competing so hard.
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  • waxdart
    2560×1600 WQXGA display? I'm going to need a bigger pocket for that phone.
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  • Cazalan
    Tegra 4 is supposed to be a Quad+1 A15 so I doubt a dual A15 could top that.
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  • Careful samsung! I heard apple has used a dual core processor in their phones. Don't want to get yourself sued. =/
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  • mralex
    waxdart2560×1600 WQXGA display? I'm going to need a bigger pocket for that phone.
    2560x1600 is for tablet, at least for now.
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  • vilenjan
    This good news, considering the practiacally nothing is written to take advantage of quad cores in hte mobile world and dual cores are just now starting to gather steam (in terms of software coding), a strong dual core cpu is the best approach.
    We already saw that the S4 with not quite A15 performance was already better than the quad core Tergra in real word performance. And with TI already announced thier own A15 based SoC, I am looking forward to finally dumping my Galaxy S1 next year :P
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