As the flagship processor for the Android camp each year, the Snapdragon 875 has naturally attracted attention from all sides.
At Apple’s fall event this year, Apple unveiled the A14 processor, which first adopted the 5nm process. Subsequently, brands such as Redmi and realme also announced that their new products would be equipped with 5nm processors.
It is speculated that this processor is likely to be the Snapdragon 875.
Recently, there have been reports that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 875 and Samsung’s Exynos 1000 will adopt a “1+3+4” tri-cluster architecture design.
The “1+3+4” refers to the super-large core, large core, and efficient cores. The Snapdragon 875 is built on Samsung’s 5nm process and is expected to use ARM’s latest generation super-large core, the Cortex X1, which has stronger performance than the Cortex A78.
According to ARM, the Cortex X1 has 30% higher peak performance compared to the Cortex-A77. The Cortex A78 also has a 20% performance improvement over the previous generation Cortex A77 architecture.
The Cortex-X1 is an architecture launched by ARM this year alongside the Cortex-A78.
Specifically, the Cortex-X1 will improve performance by 30% over the Cortex-A77, and compared to the Cortex-A78, the integer computation performance of the Cortex-X1 has increased by 23%. The Cortex-X1 also has twice the machine learning capability of the Cortex-A78. The core of the Cortex-X1 is much larger than that of the A77 and A78, with a maximum L2 cache capacity of 1MB, and bandwidth that is double the previous generation, maximizing performance, while the shared L3 cache can reach 8MB, which is twice that of previous generations.
Samsung’s Exynos 1000 processor is expected to have performance close to that of the Snapdragon 875 due to its similar core design.
However, since the Samsung Exynos 1000 will still use the Mali GPU, its GPU performance will differ from Qualcomm’s Adreno GPU, and the AMD custom GPU is expected to be commercially available in the flagship Exynos processors in 2022.
According to industry insiders, Samsung Electronics has received a 1 trillion won order to produce the next generation of 5G high-end smartphone mobile application processors for Qualcomm. The Snapdragon 875, expected to be released in December, is anticipated to be used in smartphones from Samsung, Xiaomi, and OPPO. This is the first time Samsung has received an order for Qualcomm’s flagship chip. Samsung has already begun mass production of the Snapdragon 875 on its production line in Korea using EUV equipment.
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