Exynos 2100 launches, Samsung’s 5G chip competes with Snapdragon 888

KOMPAS.com – Samsung officially announced its new System-on-Chip (SoC) aimed at smartphones flagship, that is Exynos 2100. This mobile chip is a competitor to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chip.

The Exynos 2100 is equipped with integrated 5G connectivity support, with 5 nm fabrication using Extreme Ultra Violet (EUV) technology which is claimed to be Samsung’s most advanced 5 nm SoC.

With this technology, the chip’s performance is claimed to be “faster” up to 10 percent, and power saving up to 20 percent compared to chipset top of the previous generation Exynos.

Also read: Will Samsung’s Exynos chip be used by Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi?

“The Exynos 2100 will be a flagship chip in the future,” said Inyup Kang, President of Samsung Electronics’ LSI Business Systems.

The 5G modem on the Exynos 2100 is claimed to produce data transfer speeds of up to 5.1 Gbps in the sub-6 GHz and mmWave spectrum (7.35 Gbps downlink / 3.67 Gbps uplink).

This speed is almost similar to the 5G Snapdragon 888 speed, which with the Snapdragon X60 4G LTE and 5G multimode modem, produces 7.5 Gbps downlink (5G NR mmW) and 3 Gbps uplink (5G NR mmW).

The Exynos 2100 also supports 4G LTE Cat.24 network with a downlink speed of 3 Gbps and 4G LTE Cat.18 with an uplink speed of 422 Mbps.

In addition to the 5G modem, the Exynos 2100 is also equipped with a CPU consisting of a single Cortex-X1 + core, three high-speed Cortex-A78 + cores, and four power-efficient Cortex-A55 cores. Graphics processing entrusted to GPU Mali-Also read: Comparison of Snapdragon 765G vs Exynos 980, which one is faster?G78 MP14.

While the Snapdragon 888 has a configuration of 1x ARM Cortex X1 @ 2.84GHz, 3x ARM Cortex A78 @ 2.4GHz, and 4x ARM Cortex A55 @ 1.8GHz, with GPU Adreno 660.

As assembled KompasTekno from Samsung Newsroom, Wednesday (12/1/2021), Exynos 2100 is equipped with LPDDR5 RAM support and UFS v3.1 storage technology.

To support AI processing, the Exynos 2100 also embeds a Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to process tasks related to artificial intelligence functions so that they can be processed directly on the device.

From a photographic aspect, the Exynos 2100 supports the use of a camera with a resolution of 200 megapixels or a dual camera with a 32 MP + 32 MP configuration. Image Signal Processor (ISP) on this chip is able to process data from six camera sensors.

The Exynos 2100 also supports 8K video recording at 60 fps with High Efficiency Video Coding / HEVC H.265 and VP9 encoding and decoding.

Other features include screen support for 4K (120Hz) and QHD Plus (144Hz) resolution, as well as a Multi Camera and Frame Processor (MCFP) to improve zoom performance, especially when used in ultra wide shooting modes.

Also read: Will Samsung’s Exynos chip be used by Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi?

Samsung reportedly started mass production of the Exynos 2100 earlier this year. Even so, Samsung has not announced which phones will adopt the Exynos 2100. Let’s wait.

There are rumors that Samsung’s Exynos chip will also be used by Oppo and Vivo cellphone manufacturers, but Samsung has not confirmed this.

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