Samsung Exynos 8890 vs Samsung Exynos 7884. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Samsung Exynos 8890 Samsung Exynos 7872/7884/7885/7904
• Family
  Samsung Exynos Samsung Exynos
• Generation
  2 2
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• A-Core
  4x Exynos M1 (Mangoos) 2x Cortex-A73
• B-Core
  4x Cortex-A53 6x Cortex-A53
• Base Frequency
  1.6 GHz 1.35 GHz
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• CPU Threads
  8 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.6 GHz 1.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  2.3 GHz 1.6 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  11 11
• Execution units
  12 2
• Generation
  Midgard 4 Bifrost 1
• GPU Frequency
  650 MHz 770 MHz
• GPU name
  ARM Mali-T880 MP12 ARM Mali-G71 MP2
• GPU Turbo
  650 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  2 1
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q2/2016
• Shader
  192 32
• Technology
  16 nm 16 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode / Encode | No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Samsung Exynos 7884 and Samsung Exynos 8890. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  0 0
• Memory type
  LPDDR4-1866 LPDDR4-1866

• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Samsung Exynos 8890 and Samsung Exynos 7884 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Samsung Exynos 8890 and Samsung Exynos 8890, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Exynos M1 / Cortex-A53 Cortex-A73 / Cortex-A53
• Instruction set (ISA)
  ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) ARMv8-A64 (64 bit)
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2016 Q2/2018
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  None None