ISSUE 46 • ANDROID ADVISOR 71PREVIEWsignal processor. Qualcomm has bumped up video
recording potential to Ultra-HD, and added in various
AI improvements.
Performance from the Galaxy S9 with the
Snapdragon 845 inside is expected to get a real boost.
Geekbench 4 scores for the Galaxy S9+ have been
revealed on the site’s database, and as you can see in
the chart below they are quite a bit faster than that
of the Galaxy S8+. (Interestingly the database also
reveals 5GB of RAM, suggesting there is 6GB on at
least one of the Galaxy S9+ models.)
Elsewhere in the world Samsung uses its own
Exynos chips, and has just announced the Exynos
9810 which is the most likely candidate.
We don’t know a great deal about the 9810, but
we do know it’s built on the second-generation
10nm process, which is interesting given that the
Snapdragon is thought to be 7nm. We also know
that it features M3 cores, and builds in improvements
to the GPU, which may now be the Mali-G72.
Samsung has announced that its next-generation
Exynos chips will feature LTE modems that support
six carrier aggregation (6CA). A first in the industry,
Samsung says this unlocks a maximum download
speed of 1.2Gb/s (20 percent faster than the Galaxy
S8, which has a 5CA modem). It should allow you
to download an HD movie in just 10 seconds,
and eliminate buffering.
Samsung is also said to be looking to build AI
processing right into its chips, which will perform
better when hard-coded to the chip than left to the
software. So Bixby could become a lot more efficient.