Samsung Galaxy S8 it will solve the big problem of Android terminals and one of the weak points in any comparison with the iPhone, the graphics card integrated in smartphones. According to some information that appeared yesterday, the Samsung Galaxy S8 would use an Exynos 8895 chip and a Mali-G71 graphics card, which will offer top performance.
The information comes from a Samsung manager who was arrested while trying to steal documents that contained information on the components to be used in the Samsung Galaxy S8. According to the police report, those documents contained information about the use of the Exynos 8895 chip and the Mali-G71 graphics card in the Samsung Galaxy S8.
The new graphics chip of the Samsung Galaxy S8 is going to be up to 1.8 times more powerful than the Mali-T880 MP12 used in the Samsung Galaxy S7 with its Exynos 8890 chip. Moreover, this graphics chip of the Samsung Galaxy S8 would follow to be even faster than the one integrated in the Snapdragon 830, so we are talking about a major plus for Koreans.
The Samsung Galaxy S8 will have an Exynos 8895 chip and a Mali-G71 graphics card
The Mali-G71 graphic chip uses ARM's new Bifrost architecture, it is prepared for high performance in playing 4K movies, but also in using virtual reality. Moreover, the architecture is compatible with Vulkan, OpenGL Es 3.2, GPU Compute and the RenderScript APIs of the Android platform, so it brings a lot of benefits.
The Mali-G71 graphics card works on the basis of a 16nm chip, is clocked at 850 MHz and has a bandwidth of up to 27.2 Gbps, so double what the Samsung Galaxy S7 offers. The new high-performance graphics card would allow Samsung to implement a 4K screen in the Samsung Galaxy S8 to provide a better VR experience, but the information is not 100% certain.
Samsung Galaxy S8 will be launched by the Samsung company at the beginning of next year, so until then we will find out much more information about the terminal.
