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Qualcomm on Tuesday (1) unveiled the Snapdragon 888, its new premium mobile phone platform from 2021, and listed some of the manufacturers that have already agreed to use the chipset in at least one model next year, but a significant brand was absent. of the presentation: Samsung.
But, apparently, the division between Galaxy S with Exynos and Snapdragon will endure next year. A GeekBench test with a model whose reference would be the Galaxy S21 5G was found on the reference platform running the new Snapdragon 888. The tested SM-G991U appears to be an initial prototype version, already running Android 11 and with 8 GB of RAM. .
The results are not impressive, but as already mentioned, it is apparently an early prototype, with some software tweaking still to be made until launch. The test was published on December 3, that is, two days after Qualcomm made its new top-of-the-line platform official. The “lahaina” motherboard is Snapdragon 888.
The score was just above the Galaxy S20 with Snapdragon 865, and the trend is that these numbers will increase as developers fine-tune the hardware and software to work together in the best possible way. There are still two or three months before the cell phone reaches the end consumer, more than enough time for all the adjustments to be made.
Galaxy S21 + with Exynos
At the end of September, a benchmark of the SM-G996B model with the “exynos2100” motherboard and a score similar to that of the Snapdragon 865 also appeared on GeekBench. It is worth noting that this is common especially in new platforms, whose maximum potential carries an hour of being hit on a cell phone.
The Exynos 1080 was officially unveiled about two weeks later, with an integrated 5G modem and a 5nm manufacturing process.
It only remains to wait to see if Samsung has managed to make a big enough leap to compete again with Qualcomm processors in 2021, as the benchmarks before launch are not enough to give that idea.
Source: GeekBench (1, 2, via PhoneArena)
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