As expected Samsung announced today, January 12, its new flagship processor, Exynos 2100. It is a 5 nm CPU, which takes revenge on Exynos 990 and would be a rival as far as Snapdragon 888. This processor it will be found inside the Samsung Galaxy S21, the European version, implicitly also Romania.
Exynos 2100 is Samsung's first flagship processor with integrated 5G modem and the second based on the 5 nm EUV process, after Exynos 1080. It uses the new high-performance ARM Cortex-X1 core and is clocked at 2.9 GHz. Along with this core we also find 3 other A78 cores, plus 4 cores with efficient A55 consumption. Samsung promises a 30% increase in efficiency on multi-core tasks compared to the Exynos 990, and on the GPU side it promises a 40% jump.
The new GPU used here is a 14-core Mali-G78 and we also have a 3-core NPU with new architecture and the promise of 26 TOPS (26 trillion operations per second), just as Qualcomm promised for its new Snapdragon.
On the photo / video side, we have a new ISP (Image Signal Processor), which supports cameras with sensors up to 200 MP, which we heard is already being prepared at Samsung. The ISP can connect to 6 photo sensors and process data from 4 of them simultaneously. Snapdragon 888 supports only 3 at a time.
There is also a Multi Camera / Frame ProcessoR (MCFP), which can combine image data from multiple cameras, helping to zoom and capture ultrawide. Then comes the NPU, which analyzes the scene, detects faces and objects, and chooses the ideal settings. On the connectivity side we have the integrated 5G modem, which can reach speeds of 7.35 Gbps in ideal conditions in a 5G mmWave network and 5.1 Gbps in a Sub-6 GHz network.
Exynos 2100 is already in mass production and we expect the Galaxy S21, S21 +, S21 Ultra, probably also on the Note 21. It remains to be seen to what extent it beats Snapdragon 888 in performance.