Samsung announced their 2014 Galaxy S line flagship yesterday, the Galaxy S5 came with a Snapdragon 801 processor and there was no mention of a Exynos sibling, however there are new leaks that reveals the company does plan to get one in to play soon enough. A detailed chart obtained shows the complete Galaxy S line up from S1~S5 along with the specifications upgrade from time to time, it Ā details a Exynos Octa-Core SoC clocked @ 2.1Ghz, while the GPU isnāt mentioned.
The source has now retracted the post so it might not be a āRock Solidā deal yet, but seeing the pattern that Samsung has adopted over the years, we might not be far from the reality. Additionally the Exynos Infinity SoC that was teased for a MWC debut wasnāt spoken of by Samsung at their event, this might be the same Soc the Galaxy S5 will have and it sure isnāt ready just yet (while we are hoping there is no harm in expecting a 64Bit Exynos too)
Update :Ā Engadget confirms that there is Exynos Octa version Clocked @ 2.1Ghz (No further details)
Snapdragon 801 for the Galaxy S5
TheĀ Qualcomm MSM8974ACĀ SoC is the third generation of the Snapdragon 800 SoC and is named as the Snapdragon801. The four Krait 400 cores are now able to operate @ 2.5 GHz compared to 2.3Ghz, the Adreno 330 GPU gets a higher clock Speed too @ 578 MHz compared to 450Mhz and finally the memory controller are also updated at LPDDR3 1866 from 1600. The Galaxy S5 is the only device that has this SoC till date as the one from Xperia Z2 isĀ Qualcomm MSM8974AB. The details of each is listed in the table below.
Credits : GSMArena
