According to a new report from SamMobile, the Galaxy S8 could be powered by the next-gen Exynos 8895 SoC, which will integrate ARM’s Mali-G71 GPU.
The ARM Mali-G71 GPU will succeed the Mali-T880 MP12 GPU that does duty in the Exynos 8890 SoC that powers Samsung’s 2016 flagship handsets. It will apparently be 1.8 times more powerful than the Mali-T880 MP12 and is said to be even more powerful than the next flagship Adreno GPU from Qualcomm, which will be integrated with the Snapdragon 830 SoC. This is definitely quite encouraging, as it would mean the Exynos 8895 will have a slight performance advantage over the Snapdragon 830. In fact, ARM claims the Mali-G71 offers identical performance to a 2015 discrete laptop GPU in GFXBench 4.0 1080p Manhattan 3.1 Offscreen benchmark.
The Mali-G71 utilizes ARM’s new Bifrost architecture, designed to deliver a smooth mobile 4K and VR experience. It also supports new industry advancements such as Vulkan, OpenGL ES 3.2, GPU Compute, and Android RenderScript.
The performance boost that the Mali-G71 will bring with it is definitely going to be put to good use, as the Galaxy S8 is rumored to be Samsung’s first flagship smartphone to feature a 4K resolution display. The resolution upgrade should make the Galaxy S8 a fantastic device for virtual reality as well, as the higher pixel density will mean that the image will be much clearer than with current Galaxy flagship handsets that “only” have Quad HD resolution displays.
While the Galaxy S8 is expected to debut by the end of Q1 2017, some analysts seem to believe that Samsung needs to advance the launch of its next flagship smartphone in order to make up for the negative impact caused by the whole Galaxy Note 7 BatteryGate issue. Nothing seems to have been confirmed though, so you shouldn’t have high hopes of seeing the Galaxy S8 go official early next year. No word on specs either, but we do expect more info to crop up as we head closer to the end of the year.
Via: SamMobile
