It is well documented that Samsung's in house SoC, the Exynos,
is not on the same level as the Snapdragon from Qualcomm or A Bionic from Apple
in single-core, multi-core, and GPU performance, therefore it was not used in all variants of the Galaxy S20. This meant that some Samsung devices
may come with the more powerful Snapdragon or the less so Exynos based on region. Paying
the same price for a device which is not as powerful as another version of that
same device is not ideal for users, especially since the various test has proved that
the difference is noticeable under heavy use. Battery life which is very
important to every user is also worse on the Exynos powered devices.
This moved
owners of Samsung device to write a petition to Samsung to either make their processors
better or stop using at all, and Samsung has listened. There were rumours that Samsung had started making moves to help make their processors as good as the Snapdragon or even better.
First off,
they were going to change the 7nm chipset they used in favour of a 5nm one which
would increase performance. They were also going to ditch the custom mongoose
cores they used which consumed more power in favour of ARMs version which is the same one
used by Qualcomm in their chipsets. The Mali GPU also used in the Exynos is
considerably less powerful when compared to Adreno. But the biggest surprise was their partnership with AMD to bring their GPU technology to
Samsung SoCs.
We knew in theory that these changes would make Exynos
better but due to the lack of numbers to judge from we could only
speculate, until now. We have a benchmark showing the Exynos with the AMD technology alongside the snapdragon Adreno GPU, and the results are astonishing, to say the least. The numbers show more than double fps in graphic performance on
the Exynos which is impressive since a few months ago the roles were reversed.
Samsung has a lot of believing in the future of its SoCS as
rumours point to a partnership between Samsung
and Google where Google is going to be using Exynos processors in their future
devices. The chip is so powerful to the extent that even Nintendo is
considering dropping the Nvidia Tegra graphics used in the Nintendo switch in
favour of Samsung and AMD’s new chipset. AMD is a big name in the GPU world, prove
of this is sony going their RDNA architecture for the PS5, so these huge
improvements are totally feasible.
These are exciting times for anyone looking to get any future
Samsung flagships as it could be as powerful, if not more power than both the
snapdragon and the A Bionic from Qualcomm and Apple respectively. It may be too
early to see these new changes in the Galaxy Note 20, but we are fairly certain
that we are going to see it in the Galaxy S21 next year.