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Samsung high-end tablets get Exynos 5250 dual-core chip

by Steven Williamson on 30 November 2011, 10:48

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With the Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core chip already revealed and ready to show us what it can do in upcoming tablets and phones, such as the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime and the rumoured HTC Edge, Samsung is finally ready to show its hand.

Offering twice the amount of CPU performance than Samsung’s current dual-core Cortex-A9 based Exynos chips, and quadruple the graphical power, the Exynos 5250, 2GHz dual-core Cortex-A15 processor will be mass-produced for the company’s high-end tablets in 2012, and might even be used to power the rumoured Samsung Galaxy S3.




The new chip can process 2 instructions per second to 14 billion (14,000 DMIPS) while the existing 1.5GHz dual-core Cortex-A9-based products process 2 instructions per second to 7.5 billion (7,500 DMIPS.) It will also support stereoscopic 3D and screen resolutions up to 2,560×1,600.

The first batch of chips is expected to arrive in Q2 2012. Anyone fancy a shiny new super-powered Galaxy tab?


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Posted by crossy - Wed 30 Nov 2011 11:23
Offering twice the amount of CPU performance than Samsung’s current dual-core Cortex-A9 based Exynos chips, and quadruple the graphical power, the Exynos 5250, 2GHz dual-core Cortex-A15 processor will be mass-produced for the company’s high-end tablets in 2012, and might even be used to power the rumoured Samsung Galaxy S3.
No, no, no, no … the S3 must be quad core, not slow old dual core. :eek: After all, how else are S3 owners going to lord it over iPhone5 ones?! :rolleyes:
(In case anyone missed out, I was of course being sarcastic)

4x graphics performance sounds definitely worth having - anyone got any decent links with comparisons with Tegra3 (or any of the other newish chipsets)? Only thing I'm slighty confused about is that TI's A15 SOC was claiming 3x speed increase over the A9-based one - is this down to better support, or has TI done a better job than Samsung in wringing out the performance?
Posted by Roobubba - Wed 30 Nov 2011 12:01
Tasty!
Posted by Metal_head25 - Wed 30 Nov 2011 13:24
with regards to the post shouldnt it say “2 instrustions per cycle” rather than “2 instructions per second”

unless you have an extremely multithreaded program …. dual core all the way!

Has this chip been announced as a big.LITTLE chip with CORTEXA7s in it aswell for power reduction?
Posted by mark22 - Wed 30 Nov 2011 18:17
Can't wait!