Samsung Exynos 5 Octa Explained
Samsung Exynos posted a video on YouTube about the Octa-Core processor.
The First Octa-Core processor is expected to be inside the Galaxy S IV. Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S IV tonight in New York City! More information hit over Samsung Exynos.
This animated display for the Exynos 5 Octa mobile processor was featured in the Samsung Exynos booth at Mobile World Congress 2013. Samsung’s Exynos 5 Octa is the industry’s first ARM® big.LITTLE™-enabled mobile application processor (AP).
The Exynos 5 Octa pairs ultra-efficient ARM® Cortex™-A7 (LITTLE) cores with Cortex™-A15 (big) cores designed for the highest performance. This new system-on-chip (SoC) uses LITTLE cores to handle tasks like emailing, light web search and map navigation and uses the big cores for heavy-duty applications like graphic-intensive gaming.
It demonstrates the progression in process technology from 90nm to 28nm, which has resulted in greater speeds and energy-efficiency in Exynos mobile application processors (APs) developed with the technology. For example, the Exynos 5 Octa can offer up to 70% in energy savings thanks to Samsung’s HKMG process.
I wouldn’t really call it an OCTA-core as this implies that 8 cores can be used simultaneously for processing. Anyway this really looks promising…
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Well not really, the term “Octa-core” only means it has 8 cores, which it does. A phone wouldn’t be able to utilize 8 cores simultaneously anyway.
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True, but there is no quad-core which does not use all four cores at once and may be misleading as it is not usual that not all cores are used at once.
Don’t get me wrong, I still like the concept..it’s just the naming that I do not agree with as it is misleading to non-technical people.
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Samsung has never said it’s a Octa Core processor. The name is Exynos 5 Octa, which does not necessarily ,mean that it is “Octa-Core”
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But I agree. It is somewhat misleading.
Anyways, the processor has two quad cores so totally you are getting 8 cores anyways!
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ARM Quad-core A7. ARM Quadcore A15
2 Quad-cores = 8 cores
8 cores = 1 efficient 4 core & 1 speedy performance 4 core
To answer this in a simpler form:
–big.LITTLE–
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I sincerely hope that the Exynos 5 Octa CPU is in all versions of the Samsung Galaxy S4!
It is sad when the International versions have a better CPU than the U.S. market.
It should be like the Galaxy Note II – identical in all regions.
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Note II are not identical too. There are at least 3 versions:
Note II 3G (N7100)
Note II LTE (N7105)
Note II Dual-SIM (N7102??)
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Didnt they use to have heating problams with the 5 octa? Whats up with that?
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Probably Samsung fixed the overheating issues?
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Kindly explain the Exynos Octa actually uses ARM 7 @ 1.2 Gh for opening dialer flipping pages which is is actually lower than S3. Is that the reason the sample S4 shown at unpacked events were lagging. ARM 7 using smaller chips in Octa is actually slow than 1.4 Gh quad core S3. Ironic! Day to day use like opening dialer, messages, social networks, camera if they use ARM 7 which is slight laggy than it may actually feel slow than S3.. only gaming, high graphics work like video playback and maps would be using A 15 which consumers dont use in day to day routine life constantly. Whereas opening dialer, camera, messages are done frequently throughout the day. Please explain since I am a big Samsung fan and want to buy S4.
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