Launch of Exynos 2100 (Samsung source)
Samsung announced today (Tuesday, 12.1) theExynos 2100, The next generation of chip systems designed for the company’s flagship devices, coming in its most advanced 5nm EUV manufacturing process. As in previous years, the new chipset comes close to announcing the next generation of Samsung’s flagship series, the Galaxy S21, which will be officially unveiled this coming Thursday, 14.1.
Similar to the information leaked even before the announcement, the new Exynos 2100 chip arrives as Samsung’s most advanced model to date, with an 8-core 1 + 3 + 4 processor that includes a particularly powerful Cortex-X1 core at 2.9GHz, along with 3 Cortex-A78 cores Powerful at 2.8GHz and 4 Cortex-A55 cores are economical at 2.2GHz, offering according to the company a multi-core performance improvement of over 30% compared to the previous generation. On the graphics side we are expected to find ARM’s latest Mali-G78 MP14 processor, which will offer a performance improvement of over 40% compared to the previous generation.
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The new Exynos 2100 chip will come with a built-in 5th generation modem that supports sub-6GHz networks with a download speed of up to 5.1Gbps and mmWave with a download speed of up to 7.35Gbps. It will support 4K screens with a refresh rate of 120Hz or + QHD at a refresh rate of 144Hz along with support for LPDDR5 memory and UFS 3.1 storage. In the field of photography, the chip incorporates a new image processor (ISP) that supports a single camera with a resolution of up to 200 megapixels, with a photo connection capability from 6 separate sensors to create a higher quality image. On the video side, the chip supports 8K video encoding at 30FPS and 8K video decoding of up to 60FPS.
The new Exynos 2100 chip is already in production today, when it will be found in Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S21 series of devices.
Samsung’s new Exynos 2100 is designed to be the most advanced chip the company has produced to date, as it is intended, among other things, to close the performance gap of the company’s chips against the competing Snapdragon chips, and even show better performance than Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 888 In a similar configuration but with lower operating frequencies, which is expected to end the Snapdragon wars against Axinus of some of the company’s customers.
From the details that Samsung revealed today about the Exynos 2100, it is possible to deduce some features that may also be included in the Galaxy S21 models that will be presented in the coming days, and the company may combine photography capabilities from several sensors simultaneously and support 8K high definition video at 60 frames per second and filming Video in slow motion of 120 frames per second with 2K resolution. Support for 120 Hz screens was also present in the previous generation (Galaxy S20), but extending support to 144 Hz + QHD resolution may also indicate an improvement in the refresh rate capabilities of the model screens in the Galaxy S21 series.
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