In this article, we will check deeply about Samsung’s all Exynos processors. Starting in 2010, the South Korean giant Samsung had brought the Hummingbird S5PC110 aka Exynos 3 Single and the first device featured is Samsung Galaxy S smartphone.
The core of the Galaxy S phone is powered by the ARM Cortex-A8 CPU. This ARM Cortex-A8 was code-named Hummingbird. It was developed in partnership with Intrinsity using their FastCore and Fast14 technology.
History of Samsung Exynos Processors:
- In early 2011, the company launched the Exynos 4210 SoC in its Samsung Galaxy S II mobile smartphone. The driver code for the Exynos 4210 was made available in the Linux kernel.
- On 29 September 2011, Samsung introduced Exynos 4212 (Features a higher clock frequency and “0 percent higher 3D graphics performance over the previous processor).
- On 30 November 2011, Samsung shared details of the SoC with a dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU, which was initially named “Exynos 5250” and after some time it was named as Exnos 5 Dual (12.8 GB/s of memory bandwidth, support for USB 3.0 and SATA 3, can decode full 1080p video at 60 fps along with simultaneously displaying WQXGA-resolution (2560 × 1600) on a mobile display as well as 1080p over HDMI).
- On 26 April 2012, Samsung launched the Exynos 4 Quad which was integrated into the Samsung Galaxy S III and Samsung Galaxy Note II (Exynos 4 Quad SoC uses 20% less power than the SoC in Samsung Galaxy S II. Samsung also changed the name of several SoCs, Exynos 3110 to Exynos 3 Single, Exynos 4210 and 4212 to Exynos 4 Dual 45 nm, Exynos 4 Dual 32 nm, and Exynos 5250 to Exynos 5 Dual).
- In 2012, Samsung started making of GPU IP called “S-GPU” and after three years of hard work the company finally launched a CPU core called the M1 was released in the Exynos 8890 in 2016.
- In 2017, Samsung’s custom CPU cores were named Mongoose for four generations, named M1 through M4, and Exynos SoCs.
- On 3rd June 2019, the top partnership deal came – AMD and Samsung worked together for the mobile graphics IP based on AMD Radeon GPU IP.
- On 1 October 2019, various news circulated on the internet and explained that Samsung had laid off their custom CPU core teams at SARC. On 1 November 2019, Samsung filed a WARN letter with the Texas Workforce Commission, notifying of upcoming layoffs of their SARC CPU team and termination of their custom CPU core development.
- In June 2021, Samsung was said to hire engineers from AMD and Apple to form a new custom architecture team.
Samsung Exynos Series In-Depth Explanation:
Exynos 800 series
1) Exynos 850 (S5E3830)
- Fabrication: 8nm
- ISA: ARMv8.2-A
- CPU: 8 cores 2.0 GHz Cortex-A55
- GPU: Mali-G52 MP1
- Type: LPDDR4X
- AI Accelerator:
- Modern: Shannon 318 LTE Cat.7 2CA 300Mbit/s (DL) /Cat.13 2CA 150Mbit/s (UL)
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
- Release Date: Q2 2020
2) Exynos 880 (S5E8805
- Fabrication: 8nm
- ISA: ARMv8.2-A
- CPU: 2 + 6 cores (2.0 GHz Cortex-A77 + 1.8 GHz Cortex-A55)
- GPU: Mali-G76 MP5
- Type: LPDDR4X
- AI Accelerator: NPU
- Modern: Shannon 5G LTE DL: Cat.16 1000 Mbit/s, 5CA, 256-QAM UL: Cat.18 200 Mbit/s, 2CA, 256-QAM 5G NR Sub-6 GHz DL: 2.55Gbit/s UL: 1.28Gbit/s
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
- Release Date: Q2 2020
Exynos 900 series
1) Exynos 980 (S5E9630)
- Fabrication: 8nm
- ISA: ARMv8.2-A
- CPU: 2 + 6 cores (2.2 GHz Cortex-A77 + 1.8 GHz Cortex-A55)
- GPU: Mali G76 MP5
- Frequency (MHz): 728
- Performance GFLOPS (FP32): 262
- Type: LPDDR4X
- Bandwidth (GB/s):2133 MHz (34.128GB/s
- AI Accelerator: Single core NPU and DSP? MAC units @ ?
- Modern: Shannon 5188 5G LTE DL: Cat.16 1000 Mbit/s, 5CA, 256-QAM UL: Cat.18 200 Mbit/s, 2CA, 256-QAM 5G NR Sub-6 GHz DL: 2.55Gbit/s UL: 1.28Gbit/s
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax
- Release Date: Q4 2019
2) Exynos 990 (S5E9830)
- Fabrication: 7 nm LPP (EUV)
- Die size (mm2): 91.83
- ISA: ARMv8.2-A
- CPU: 2 + 2 + 4 cores (2.73 GHz Exynos M5 “Lion” + 2.5 GHz Cortex-A76 + 2.0 GHz Cortex-A55) 2MB System Cache
- GPU: Mali G77 MP11
- Frequency (MHz): 800
- Performance GFLOPS (FP32): 1,126
- Type: LPDDR5
- Bandwidth (GB/s): Dual-core NPU? MAC units @ ? DSP (15 TOPs)
- AI Accelerator: Single core NPU and DSP? MAC units @ ?
- Modern: Paired with Exynos Modem 5123 LTE DL: Cat.24 3000 Mbit/s, 8CA, 1024-QAM UL: Cat.22 422 Mbit/s, 2CA, 256-QAM 5G NR Sub-6 GHz DL: 5.1Gbit/s UL:?Gbps 5G NR mmWave DL: 7.35Gbit/s UL: ?Gbps
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax
- Release Date: Q1 2020
Exynos 1000 series
Exynos 1080
- Fabrication: 5nm (5LPE) Samsung process
- CPU: 1 + 3 + 4 cores (2.8 GHz Cortex-A78 + 2.6 GHz Cortex-A78 + 2.0 GHz Cortex-A55)
- GPU: Mali G78 MP10, Vulkan 1.2
- DSP Features: H.265/HEVC, H.264, VP9, HDR10+
- Frequency (MHz): 800
- Bluetooth 5.2 (from 5.0 on Exynos 990)
- LTE Category 24/18
- 6CA, 256-QAM
- 5G NR Sub-6 (DL = 5100 Mbit/s and UL = 1920 Mbit/s)
- 5G NR mmWave (DL = 7350 Mbit/s and UL = 3670 Mbit/s)
Exynos 1280 Series
Exynos 1280 (S5E9815)
- Fabrication: 5 nm LPE (EUV)
- ISA: ARMv8.2-A
- CPU: 1 + 3 + 4 cores (2.8 GHz Cortex-A78 + 2.6 GHz Cortex-A78 + 2.0 GHz Cortex-A55)
- GPU: Mali G78 MP10
- Frequency (MHz): 800
- Performance GFLOPS (FP32): 1024
- Type: LPDDR4X, LPDDR5
- Bus Width: 64-bit (4×16-bit) Quad-channel
- Bandwidth(GB/s): 2133 MHz (34.128GB/s) 2750 MHz (44GB/s)
- AI Accelerator: NPU + DSP (5.7 TOPs)
- Modern: LTE DL: Cat.18 1200 Mbit/s, 6CA, 256-QAM UL: Cat.18 200 Mbit/s, 2CA, 256-QAM 5G NR Sub-6 GHz DL: 5.1Gbit/s UL: 1.28Gbit/s 5G NR mmWave DL: 3.67Gbit/s UL: 3.67Gbit/s
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.2, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax
- Release Date: Q4 2020
Exynos 1280 (S5E8825
- Fabrication: 5 nm LPE (EUV)
- ISA: ARMv8.2-A
- CPU:2 + 6 cores (2.4 GHz Cortex-A78 + 2.0 GHz Cortex-A55)e
- GPU: Mali-G68 MP4
- Frequency (MHz): 1000
- Type: LPDDR4X
- AI Accelerator: NPU (4.3 TOPs)
- Modern: Shannon 5G LTE DL: Cat.18 1.2 Gbit/s, 6CA, 256-QAM UL: Cat.18 200 Mbit/s, 2CA, 256-QAM 5G NR Sub-6 GHz DL: 2.55Gbit/s UL: 1.28Gbit/s 5G NR mmWave DL: 1.84 Gbit/s UL: 0.92 Gbit/s
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.2, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
- Release Date: Q1 2022
Exynos 2000 series
Exynos 2100
- 5nm (5LPE)
- 6MB cache
- CPU features: 1 + 3 + 4 cores (2.91 GHz Cortex-X1 + 2.81 GHz Cortex-A78 + 2.2 GHz Cortex-A55)
- GPU features: Mali G78 MP14 at 854 MHz,, Vulkan 1.2
- DSP features: 8K30 & 4K120 encode & 8K60 decode
- Add support of AV1 in 8K60 (decode support claimed, however not implemented, thus this claim is unverified)
- HDR10+
- ISP features
- Single: 200MP or Dual: 32MP+32MP[45]
- Bluetooth 5.2 (from 5.0 on Exynos 990)
- LTE Category 24/18
- 6CA, 256-QAM
- 5G NR Sub-6 (DL = 5100 Mbit/s and UL = 1920 Mbit/s)
- 5G NR mmWave (DL = 7350 Mbit/s and UL = 3670 Mbit/s)
- Single band GNSS support: GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, BeiDou
Exynos 2200 Series
Exynos 2100 (S5E9840)
- Fabrication: 5 nm LPP (EUV)
- ISA: ARMv8.2-A
- CPU: 1 + 3 + 4 cores (2.91 GHz Cortex-X1 + 2.81 GHz Cortex-A78 + 2.2 GHz Cortex-A55)
- GPU: Mali G78 MP14
- Frequency (MHz): 1530
- Performance GFLOPS (FP32): 1,126
- Type: LPDDR5
- Bus width: 64-bit (4×16-bit) Quad-channel
- Bandwidth (GB/s): Bluetooth 5.2, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax
- AI Accelerator: Triple NPU + DSP, (26 TOPs)
- Modern: LTE DL: Cat.24 3000 Mbit/s, 8CA, 1024-QAM UL: Cat.18 422 Mbit/s, 4CA, 256-QAM 5G NR Sub-6 GHz DL: 5.1Gbit/s UL: 1.92Gbit/s 5G NR mmWave DL: 7.35Gbit/s UL: 3.67Gbit/s
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax
- Release Date: Q1 2021
Exynos 2200 (S5E9925)
- Fabrication: 4 nm (4LPE) (EUV)
- ISA: ARMv9-A
- CPU: 1 + 3 + 4 cores (2.8 GHz Cortex-X2 + 2.52 GHz Cortex-A710 + 1.82 GHz Cortex-A510)e
- GPU: Samsung Xclipse 920 (RDNA 2) (3 Cores)
- Performance GFLOPS (FP32): 1,126
- Type: LPDDR5
- Bus width: 64-bit (4×16-bit) Quad-channe
- Bandwidth (GB/s): Bluetooth 5.2, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax
- AI Accelerator: Dual NPU + DSP
- Modern: LTE DL: Cat.24 3000 Mbit/s, 8CA, 1024-QAM UL: Cat.22 422 Mbit/s, 4CA, 256-QAM 5G NR Sub-6 GHz DL: 5.1 Gbit/s UL: 2.55 Gbit/s 5G NR mmWave DL: 7.35 Gbit/s UL: 3.67 Gbit/s
- Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax
- Release Date: Q1 2022
Past Exynos SoCs Processors List:
- Exynos 3 Single 3110
- Exynos 3 Quad 3470
- Exynos 3 Quad 3475
- Exynos 4 Dual 4210
- Exynos 4 Dual 4212
- Exynos 4 Quad 4412
- Exynos 4 Quad 4415
- Exynos 5 Dual 5250
- Exynos 5 Hexa 5260
- Exynos 5 Octa 5410
- Exynos 5 Octa 5420
- Exynos 5 Octa 5422
- Exynos 5 Octa 5430
- Exynos 5 Octa 5800
- Exynos 7 Octa 5433
- Exynos 7 Octa 7420
- Exynos 7 Quad 7570
- Exynos 7 Quad 7578
- Exynos 7 Octa 758
- Exynos 7 Octa 7870
- Exynos 788
- Exynos 7872
- Exynos 7884A
- Exynos 7884
- Exynos 7885
- Exynos 7904
- Exynos 8 Octa 8890
- Exynos 8895
- Exynos 9609
- Exynos 9610
- Exynos 9611
- Exynos 9810 (S5E9810)
- Exynos 9820 (S5E9820)
- Exynos 9825 (S5E9825)
The above list is officially described by Wikipedia.
