Latest Samsung Exynos SoC with Mongoose CPU blazes through benchmarks

06 October, 2015
The company's new Mongoose CPU nearly matches the performance of the Apple A9 chip in single-core tests, but beats it in multi-core performance.

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  • 08 Oct 2015

WRONG!, 07 Oct 2015I found the link for you so you can better eductae yourself... moreThat article isn't very good as evidence that more cores means better performance, they never really compared actual use to capacity and so they were really only testing if more cores could be used (which of course they can) rather than if more cores would improve performance. And they didn't properly investigate what the extra cores were being used for, it's easy for a program to utilize more cores for background tasks that aren't time critical which wont result in appreciable performance improvements so again they weren't really testing performance. They also didn't really compare performance to phones with more or less cores at the same clock speed, which again means the results aren't really capable of proving if more or less cores would change the performance.

If you read the results though you'll find that as I said many apps use one main thread, and usually if that main thread is being limited by the speed of the CPU then that's what will cause performance drops, additional threads are often used for background tasks that aren't time critical and could take several times longer to complete without affecting the user experience.

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    • 2mC
    • 08 Oct 2015

    Dante, 07 Oct 2015you don't know what you are talking about dude, iphone 6 h... moreYou are the one who dont know ....the iphone 6s gpu power vr gt7600 beat mali760mp8
    During off screen test...off screen test using standard 1080p with display off condition.

    Samsung is so desperate with the new exynos soc.

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      • pIZ
      • 07 Oct 2015

      Dante, 07 Oct 2015you don't know what you are talking about dude, iphone 6 h... moreLol what? Go read iPhone 6 Plus/6s Plus reviews, they render at 2208x1242 and DOWNSCALE not upscale, that's why onscreen results are worse than 1080p on these devices.

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        • JiR
        • 07 Oct 2015

        Anonymous, 06 Oct 2015check out how the tsmc 16nm iphone 6s use less power and pr... moreProvide a source, common sense would tell you 14nm is more efficient and produces less heat.

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          • vby
          • 07 Oct 2015

          I fear the Snapdragon family will be irrelevant now 😞
          They used to enjoy distinctive edge in power and/or performance..
          That will no longer be the case.. Hydra wont stand a chance against Apple's Hurricane core and mongoose

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            • iGB
            • 07 Oct 2015

            AnonD-364786, 07 Oct 2015nah .. samsung cores are least customised and more or less ... moreYou think that Samsung has not capable engineers for make a customized mobile processor? You are very mistaken. The Samsung engineers are between the bests of the world.

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              • AnonD-364786
              • PB7
              • 07 Oct 2015

              Ru, 07 Oct 2015What you are saying is a total nonsense. All the Samsung "l... morenah .. samsung cores are least customised and more or less same as default ARM cores..
              samsung doesn't have expertise in customising

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                • 07 Oct 2015

                Anonymous, 07 Oct 2015At the moment tegra x1 ,apple a9x was on top of the chart f... moreThe irony is that, samsung only manufactures processors for Apple, and still people point out at sammy..!
                Apple doesnt have something of their own till now..:)

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                  • 07 Oct 2015

                  Anonymous, 07 Oct 2015At the moment tegra x1 ,apple a9x was on top of the chart f... moreyou don't know what you are talking about dude,
                  iphone 6 has sub FHD resolution almost above mere HD and 6 plus has FHD
                  but samsung series now have QHD , so the fps you mentioned is not working here,
                  it proves nothing at all.
                  only off-screen 1080p tests are valid which apple ha no lead in them currently without cheating in benchmarks.
                  since iphone 6 and 6 plus result are very much alike apple is using upscaling instead of rendering FHD in 6 plus (rendering at lower resolution then scaling up) oh because it has 1gb ram also and in mobiles if you know the amount of ram is shared between the cpu and gpu.
                  which might be a different story in 6s plus with 2gb ram.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • bJb
                    • 07 Oct 2015

                    At the moment tegra x1 ,apple a9x was on top of the chart for tablet.
                    Apple A9 was the best graphic performer for smartphone.No way current exynos
                    Can reach iphone 6s frame/sec benchmark result.Apple really serious about mobile
                    gaming this time.
                    (power vr gt7600) work like a beast....this gt7600 remind me of the old
                    1998 - 3Dfx Voodoo II graphic card when that was the top 3d gaming card for desktop
                    Pc.
                    This is new soc desperate announcement from sammy after look the Mali760mp8 officially
                    defeated by ip6s- power vr gt7600 in Gfxbench rendering test.
                    sorrr samsung,your gpu still lagging to reach Apple level.The mali gpu architecture still not developer choice.

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                      • pIZ
                      • 07 Oct 2015

                      Anonymous, 06 Oct 2015check out how the tsmc 16nm iphone 6s use less power and pr... moreReally, could you put a source where they tested TSMC A9 against Samsung A9?

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                        • Tqc
                        • 07 Oct 2015

                        mas39, 07 Oct 2015Snapdragon still wins as it offers all round features suite... moreOverheating? What overheating? the Snapdragon chipsets is that are known for overheating and it isn't only the Snapdragon 810, the Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core and the 801 also are known for overheating issues.

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                          • 07 Oct 2015

                          Snapdragon still wins as it offers all round features suited to a mobile device, all samsung can offer is power and overheating.

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                            • 07 Oct 2015

                            AnonD-364786, 07 Oct 2015probably qualcomm won't be using anything like benchmark bo... moreExynos 8890 has not a octo-core processor, it is a costum quad-core cpu like Snapdragon 820.

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                              • 07 Oct 2015

                              AnonD-370787, 07 Oct 2015Of course more cores is useful, no one ever said it wasn't,... moreI found the link for you so you can better eductae yourself before you make silly arguements online ... http://www.anandtech.com/show/9518/the-mobile-cpu-corecount-debate
                              check it out hopefully it will teach you something android is going the right path altough i would agree with you more optimization is needed across android and all its apps but they have taken notice :)

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                                • 07 Oct 2015

                                AnonD-370787, 07 Oct 2015Of course more cores is useful, no one ever said it wasn't,... morejust thought id let you know more and more apps take full advantage of all cores these days im not on my home PC and i cant link the article but it was done by Anadtech check it out!

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                                  • 07 Oct 2015

                                  the power of exynos is raging on unprecedented in every way. expect a hell spawn when this is made. samsung are on fire and aint nothin comin near them. even thier competition bows before them when it comes to soc manufacturing. pave the way sammy even for them naysayers...

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                                    • Hkt
                                    • 07 Oct 2015

                                    Remember exynos 4 quad? The chipset in GS3? It didn't get KItkat, only the snapdragon s4 version got it and also performed better. Remember exynos in note 3 and gs5? They had heating problems because of faulty big.little. Snapdragon 800 was superior to them. The only good Exynos were GS2's Exynos 4 duo, GS4's Exynos 5410 octa (which had a bit heating and battery problem but was faster than the S4 pro), Note 4's Exynos 5433 and GS6's Exynos 7420, while Qualcomm reigned supreme for the rest of the part

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                                      • 07 Oct 2015

                                      AnonD-364786, 07 Oct 2015samsung manufactures but not designs snapdragon and A9 chip... morerebranded exynos with faPple tweaks...

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                                        • 07 Oct 2015

                                        Ru, 07 Oct 2015What you are saying is a total nonsense. All the Samsung "l... moreDude , get your facts straight the software is fine and should the be a lag , it would be caused by RAM not anything else.