2013 is bound to be a year that mobile processors will develop and improve rapidly. Though people generally think that this year is still the rhythm of quad-core areas, the target will be converted into higher performance, lower power consumption, as well as an updated architecture, like released new quad-core released by NVIDIA and Qualcomm at CES 2013.
4-PLUS-1™ NVIDIA Tegra 3
As the world’s first eight-core mobile processor, the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa uses 28nm processing technology based on the the ARM® big.LITTLE™ (the size of nuclear architecture). Samsung announced 8 core is composed by four Cortex-A15 cores and four Cortex-A7 core, and similar to the 4-PLUS-1™ NVIDIA Tegra 3. Samsung has changed its additional core to four cores. After all, the Exynos 5 Octa is not mature at the initial stage, not eight-core simultaneous processing as we imagine, just runs quad core as we need. It uses four powerful Cortex-A15™ processors to handle processing-intense tasks and four additional Cortex-A7™ cores for lighter workloads. It makes use of the advantages of powerful performance of Cortex-A15 and high energy efficiency of Cortex-A7.
Samsung hasn’t released the Exynos 5 Octa’s GPU, but it announced that its graphics performance will be twice that of the previous generation products, beyond the strongest SGX 554MP4. It is said that related products will be rolled out in March or May.
