Samsung unveils its 64-Bit Exynos 7 Octa processor

Samsung officially announced the Exynos 7 Octa today, the second mobile SoC from the manufacturer to use a 20nm process. The South Korean vendor is touting significant performance enhancements to the tune of 57 percent over the Exynos 5 Octa, which is achieved by using 64-bit CPU cores. The Exynos 7 Octa features four ARMv8 Cortex A57 cores and four Cortex A53 cores in a big.LITTLE configuration, which means that any assortment of cores can be active based on the use case. The SoC comes with a Mali T760 GPU, which is claimed to offer an increase in performance of 76 percent over the T628MP6 GPU used in the Galaxy Alpha. Other features include support for 2560 x 1600 and 2560 x 1440 displays, ability to shoot high-definition content from both front and back cameras simultaneously and output 4K resolution to TVs.