The short story is that Exynos 5 is a 32nm A15 core chip fabbed at the Samsung fabs, duh, and sporting an ARM Mali T-604 MP4 GPU. It will run at up to 2GHz, two CPU cores, four GPU cores, and 64-bit memory up to 1600MHz. Don’t expect those to see either of those speeds in a mobile device though, at least not before the next three big leaps in battery technology.
These figures do line-up with previous exceptions of the Eynos 5 range, with pixel-pushing-performance a juicy new detail, though more interesting figures such as triangles and floating point operations per second continue elude us.
What is a little upsetting, however, is that it has recently been reported by Korean Times that a Samsung exec has stated that, despite the immanent availability of the Exynos 5, the Samsung GALAXY S III smartphone will, in fact, feature a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9-based Exynos 4412, which, whilst claiming to have improved battery performance over other Exynos chips in the series, will no doubt gobble significantly more power than Cortex-A15 dual-core offerings. We only hope that the 4412 will feature a new ARM Mali GPU to support our great expectations of the new smartphone.
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