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

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

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

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  8 / 8 8 / 8
• Core architecture
  hybrid (big.LITTLE) hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• A-Core
  4x Exynos M1 (Mangoos) 2x Cortex-A73
• B-Core
  4x Cortex-A53 6x Cortex-A53
• Frequency
  1.60 GHz 1.35 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.60 GHz 1.60 GHz
• Turbo (8 Cores)
  2.30 GHz 1.60 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No

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

• GPU name
  ARM Mali-T880 MP12 ARM Mali-G71 MP2
• GPU frequency
  0.65 GHz 0.77 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.65 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  12 2
• Shader
  192 32
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 1
• Generation
  Midgard 4 Bifrost 1
• Direct X
  11 11
• Technology
  16 nm 16 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q2/2016

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode Decode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

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.

• Memory type
  LPDDR4-1866 LPDDR4-1866
• ECC
  No No
• AES-NI
  No No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Samsung Exynos 8890 and Samsung Exynos 7884 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

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

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