The other two major Android chips are Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 and Samsung’s own Exynos 8890. It also has a similar Mali T880 GPU to the Exynos, but with only four cores compared to the Samsung chip’s 12.
It’s built using TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process, which is technically inferior to the 14nm standard used in the other two chips. Like the Exynos, it utilises ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture, sharing the same four low-power Coretex-A53 cores for lesser tasks. This chip is an octa-core 64-bit chip, and it’s the first to feature ARM’s Coretex-A72 processor cores. Its big feature will be the first ever 10-core setup – provided rumoured overheating issues are addressed in time.įor the purpose of this piece we can dismiss the Kirin 950, Huawei’s own in-house solution that powers the Mate 8 and quite probably the P9. There’ll be a fourth major player in the shape of MediaTek’s Helio X20, which could run a number of big upper mid-range smartphones from China this year, but it’s taking its time coming to market after being announced in May 2015.
There are three main flagship chips to have emerged for 2016 so far: the Huawei Kirin 950, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, and the Samsung Exynos 8890. Which raises the questions: who’s getting the better deal here? What are the differences and similarities?įirst, let’s offer a brief overview of where we stand with Android smartphone chips in 2016. While some regions will find Samsung’s own Exynos 8890 CPU in their Galaxy S7s, others will find Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820. Snapdragon 820 vs Exynos 8890: Which Samsung Galaxy S7 CPU is best?Īfter a year in which Samsung launched the Galaxy S6 with a custom Exynos 7 CPU, it’s returned to a split approach for 2016’s Galaxy S7.
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