Samsung has announced the Exynos 2100, the mobile processor which is used to power Samsung Galaxy S21 flagship all over the world outside the US. Exynos 1080 made an announcement last year that it is built using a 5nm fabrication process and got an integrated 5G modem that can handle both Sub-6GHz and mmWave.
Features of Exynos 2100 processor –
- Exynos 2100 processor is an octa-core CPU, including one Arm Cortex-X1 core clocked at 2.9GHz, three Cortex-A78 cores and four power-efficient Cortex-A55 cores.
- The CPU is paired with an Arm Mali-G78 GPU, and a tri-core NPU (neural processing unit) for handling AI tasks.
- As stated by Samsung, the Exynos offers 10 percent more performance than its 7nm predecessor, or 20 percent lower power consumption.
- Exynos 2100 supports resolutions of up to 200 megapixels as well as connects to maximum six sensors at a time.
- It can be widely used to handle feeds from as many as four cameras at a time. Samsung stated that this feature could be used for better zoom or ultrawide photographs.
Samsung is now using Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 in the Galaxy S21 in the US. Exynos processor will likely power the phone across the rest of the world. In the past, this dual-processor approach has been criticized that the Exynos chips are not as capable as their Snapdragon equivalents.