Latest reports about Samsung's next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, indicate that the device will sport a 10nm chipset referred to as the Exynos 8895. The information follows the recently leaked documents containing Samsung's fabrication process for 14nm and 10nm chipsets that the company's senior official was trying to steal.
The official who stole the documents was planning to sell the information to competitors' brands in China. In case the latest reports turn out to be true, the upcoming Galaxy S8 will use the Exynos 8895 SoC with ARM's latest Mali-G71, which is the successor to the Mali-T880 used in Exynos 8890 inside the Samsung Galaxy S7. The new GPU will focus on graphics-intensive processing such as the high-end 4K and Virtual Reality content since it is up to 1.8 times more powerful than its precursor.
According to a statement from , "The Mali-G71 GPU was developed expressly to meet the needs of new industry advancements," AMR said via its official website. Among these advancements are "the Vulkan cross-platform graphics API from Khronos as well as the ever growing demand for a smooth mobile VR experience."
The Mali-G71 is made specifically to bring significant improvements and power efficiency to work flawlessly with mobile VR platforms. Based on the website, as the complexity of 3D mobile graphics content continues to increase, the computational power of high-end GPUs should increase as well. This is important in delivering the latest game and apps to end-users within the power and thermal envelope of mobile devices.
It is also speculated that the G71 is more powerful than the yet to be announced Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 SoC. If this is true, it would be the first time that ARM has outperformed Qualcomm in the GPU race.
The Exynos 8895 will allegedly be clocked up to 3GHz. The G71 will as well be compatible with OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan, Android RenderScript APIs, and GPU Compute.
At 16nm, the Mali-G71 runs at 850 MHz and provides a filtrate of 27.2 gigapixels per second, which is double what the T880 can reach at the same frequency. According to WCCF Tech, the South Korean tech giant will optimize the Exynos 8895 chipset for a longer battery life and further improvement could lead to improved image-processing performance by up to 80 percent. Here is footage for more information on the Galaxy S8: