Samsung Might Power S8 With Its Inhouse Fabricated Exynos 8895 SOC

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Samsung powered Galaxy S7 with the Qualcomm's flagship processor of 2016, Snapdragon 820. The company will use flagship processor for its upcoming smartphone, Samsung Galaxy S8.

According to recent leaks and reports from GSMArena suggest that Samsung is might use its own Exynos processor rather than using the Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835. This comes as a bit of surprise as previous reports suggested that Samsung could use Snapdragon 835 in its next major Galaxy iteration. But it might be possible that Samsung may use Qualcomm's processor in Galaxy S8 and sell them in different market just like it did with Galaxy S4.

The Exynos 8895M and 8895V variants are now said to power Galaxy S8 and they are similar in almost all aspects except for clock speeds and different variants of GPU. Exynos 8895M is the higher clocked version at 2.5GHz while clock speed of 8895V is at 2.3GHz. These are the clock speeds of Samsung's specially designed M2 core which is going to be the cluster of four powerful cores among the eight total CPU cores and the other four cores are Cortex A-53 cores clocked at 1.7 GHz. Another difference between 8895M and 8895V is the GPU. The former gets a G71MP20 GPU with 20 cores while the latter one gets a G71MP18 GPU with 18 cores. So 8895V is the lower specced version of the two which points to two variants of Galaxy S8. Exynos and Snapdragon are both produced by Samsung on a 10nm manufacturing process reports BGR.

Performance for both variants, Exynos and Snapdragon will be similar and most of the users won't be able to tell the difference but the availability of source code of each of the processor might create differences in application development. Samsung has been criticized in the past for not providing source code for its Exynos processors which hinders the development.